Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-06
R00SEvELT'S VIEWS ON BRITISH Rll.E
 IN EGYPT RELATED
25, ,000-Word KilartOum Let ter an Interesting Doe
 ument

New York, Feb. 5.-Colonel Roose- velt's longest letter" 25,000-word personal account of his trip from Khartoum to London in 1909, and which is described by his biograph- CT, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, as "a hu- man document of exceptional char acter, appears as the first of two installments in the February issue of Scribner's magazine, published to- day.
 "Soon after retiring from the presidency" explains Mr. Bishop "the colonel went to Africa on a hunting trip. He had arranged be- fore his departure for several formal addressed, which he was to make in Germany, England, France and Nor way on his return. When he reach cd Khartoum in March, 1910, on his way home, he yielded to urgent ap- peals and made two addresses on Egyptian affairs, one at Khartoum and the other at Cairo, which arous- ed much controversy, and led later to speech on the same subject, also ! by urgent request at the Guildhall i in London.
 From Khartoum he went to Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Paris, Brussels, | d. Stockholm, Berlin and thence to London. At the close of his tour be paid a long visit to his long time { correspondent and friend, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, at the latter's estate at Welcombe, Stratford- on Arvon. During the visit his narrative of his | experiences in Egypt and Europe so strongly impressed Sir George that he urged him most earnestly to put it in writing. This Roosevelt did | the following year, in the form of letter to Trevelyan, under date of October 1, 1911."
 The former president, in the mis- sive, made frank and searching com ments upon the characteristics and personalities of kings, emperors and other eminent personages with whom | he came in contact" and in the open ing paragraph requested that it
 should not be made public "until long after all of us who are now alive are dead" Trevelyan, in au- thorizing it's publication, said: q do not hesitate to say that it should be published and the sooner the bet ter. The world would be much the richer for it. The times are such that the human ir crest and solid | value of this wonderful paper would [ be very great indeed now"
 The colonel drew an intimate pie ture of British rule in Egypt, prais- ed it on the whole and declared that the task of "super-impo the 20th mighty one (which only great and | powerful nation could attempt and which it is a high and honorable thing to have attempted" Nearly 5000 words are devoted to "The | Vatican Incident" and the reason Roosevelt was not presented to Pope Plus K. A certain Methodist clergy man in Rome had been conducting an attack upon the head of the Cath ollie church and when Vice President Fairbanks, sometime before, visited the Holy City the Supreme PontiffI stipulated that he would not receive him in audience if he addressed Methodist gatherings. Roosevelt took the same attitude as Fairbanks. that he "must decline to spbmit to any conditions which in any way limit my freedom of conduct"
 i The colonel said in his letter to Sir George that one of his volunteer secretaries at that time was "anx- iops to prevent the Vatican from committine what he felt would be a great blunder" and while the colonel wa sat Naples went to Rome to see the then Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Merry del Val. The stipu- lation by the Pope was not with drawn and Colonel Roosevelt adher- cd to his resolution of making no agreement to refrain from speaking before Methodist meetings. "Ac- ] orJt oc1xy ko o%o oA eented at the Vatican"
 i In a public statement at the time the colonel declared that "the re- snect and regard of those of my fell low-Americans who are Catholics are as dear to me as the respect and regard of those who are Protes- tants." and he expressed the hope that the incident would be treated as merely personal matter without rarcor or bitterness.
 | While in Rome the colonel visited
 King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena of Italy, whom he described as faithful, conscientious and wise" as we'll as loveable couple Later he saw in Vienna the aged Franz Jo-
 sci. Emperor of Austria, who said
 he was "the last representative of the old system. whereas I embodied the new movement"
 q shall always bear testimony to
 the good manners. and the obvious
 sense of responsibility and duty of
 the various socereigns," the colonel wrote. "I thoroughly liked and re-
 spected almost all the various kings
 and queens I met; they struck me as serious people. with charming
 manners, devoted to their people and
 anxious to justify their own posi- tions by the way they did their