Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-16
Woodrow Wilson
AS | KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.


fell suddenly i'll and took to his bed
That the illness was serious is evi
lenced by the following letter which
DR.. Grayson wrote me:
Paris, 10 April, 1919.
Dear Mr.. Tumulty:
While the contents Of this let
ter may possibly be somewhat
out of date by the time it reaches
you, nevertheless you may find
something in it Of interest.
This has been one Of the most
completing and trying weeks of
my existence over here. The
president was taken violently
sick last Thursday. The attack
was very sudden. At o'clock
he was apparently all right; at
6 he was seized with violent
paroxysms of coughing, which
were so severe and frequent that
it interfered with his breathing.
He had fever of 1903 and a pro-
fuse diarrhoea. I was at first =,
suspicious that his food had been
tempered with, but it turned out
to be the beginning Of an attack
of influenza. That night was one
of the worst through which I
have ever passed. I was able to
control the spasms Of coughing,
but his condition looked very Sc
rious. Since that time he has
been gradually improving every
day so that he is now back at
work-he went out for the first
time yesterday. This disease is
f1.ao a1on in
climate, that L am perhaps over
anxious for fear of bareback
and a bareback in a case of
this kind often results in pneu-
monia. I have been spending
every minute of my time with
him, not only as physician, but
as nurse. Mrs. Wilson was
perfect angel through it all.
Sincerely,
CARY T. GRAYSON.
Wilson'S Threat Wins
Continuing the narrative Mr..
Creel writes:
ION April the president strug-
gled to his feet and faced the coun-
Ill in what every one recognized as
a final test Of strength. There
must be an end to this dreary, in
business of making
only to break them. An
agreement must be reached once for
Ill. If a peace of justice, he would
if a peace of greed, then
he would leave. He had been Sec
ond to none in recognizing the
of the allies, the state of
mind of their peoples, and he stood
as firmly as any for a treaty that
would bring guilt home to the Ger.
mans, but he could not and would
not, agree to the reputation of
every war aim or to arrangements
that would leave the world worse
off than before. The George Wash,
ngton was in Brooklyn. By wire
less the president ordered it to come
to Brest at once.
1.-THE gesture was conclusive as far
as England and France were con-
cerned. Lloyd George swung over
to the presidents side, and
On the following day lie Temps car
ried this significant item:
Contrary to the assertions
spread by the German press
and taken up by other foreign
newspapers, We believe that the
government has no annexation
list pretensions, openly or under
cover, in regard to any territory
inhabited by a German popula-
ton. This remark applies Pc
culiarly to the regions COM
prfsed between the frontier of
1871 and the frontier of 1914.
again in the lock Of wills, the
president was the victor, and the
French and English press, exhaust.
ed by now, could only gasp their
condemnation of Clemenceau and
Lloyd George"
ter Miller, the legal adviser of the
peace commission, with
reference to the debate on the Mon
roe doctrine, in which the president
played the leading part, is concIu.
sive on this point. Mr.. Miller
speaks Of the presidents devotion
to the Monroe doctrine in these
words:
But the matter was not at ar
end" Mr.. Miller said, ''for at the
next meeting, the last of all, the
French sought by amendment to OBJ
tain some definition, some descrip
ton of the Monroe doctrine that
would limit the right of the United
States to insist upon it's own inter
probation of that doctrine in the flu
ture as in the past. The French
delegates, hoping for some ad
vantage for their own proposals
urged such a definition; and at that
last meeting I thought for a mo
ment, in despair, that President
Wilson would yield to the fina
French suggestion, which contained
only few seemingly simple words
but he stood by his position through
the long discussion, and the meet
ing and the proceedings of the com
ended early in the morn
ing in an atmosphere of constraint
and without any Of the speeches Of
politeness customary on such an oc
casion."
OF all the false reports about the
attitude, none was more
erroneous than the combined state
ments that he was lukewarm about
the Monroe doctrine and that he de-
clined to ask for or receive advice
from eminent Americans outside OF
his own party
(To Be Continued.)