Evening star., 1924-02-04
GREATNESS SEEN IN LONDON
Press Comments Lengthily on Pass.
ing of Wilson.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 4.-The London
papers comment lengthily on the
passing of Woodrow Wilson. The
Westminster Gazette says: ITO this
side of the world. battling for its
existence. Woodrow Wilson through
later years seems timid and uncer-
tain. Opinions possibly will always
be divided as to whether he did right
to attend the Versailles conference.
With all his driving force. with all
his enthusiasm for clear-cut princi-
pies and for a settlement that would
cause war to cease in the world. he
was ill-equipped for a day-to-day
of Europe. He left the conference a
disillusioned man. to discover that he
had lost touch with the main current
of American thought.
within the last few months he
had again become the most conspicu-
Gus man in America and had seen
the principles for which he stood
everywhere gaining in popular ap-
proval. Given health, he might have
regained power and carried his ideas
The Daily News says: I'VE believe
that when the bitter controversies
of the war period have passed into
history the Judgment of history will
not altogether deny his greatness.
Stood Head Above All.
HE stood head and shoulders above
all other rulers of our time, as one
man who saw clearly the lights of
truth in a world of false and men,
acing relations and who had the cour-
age to transform his vision into the
single dominating policy of his life.
For this alone his name deserves to
be cherished and honored down the
ages"
The Times says: THE dizziness of
the height to which he rose and the
completeness of his collapse, the en-
thusiasm Of his followers and the
scorn of his opponents. the popularity
and esteem of the millions which
were his in 1918, and the oblivion
that shrouded the last years of his
mate his true place in history.
HE contributed materially to his
own downfall by complete failure to
placate his republican critics. He
trusted nobody but himself, and end
ed by representing nobody but him.
Played Great Part.
''Yet with all his faults he was a
great American who played for brief
space greater part in the worlds
affairs than any Of his predecessors.
He may not ultimately be reckoned
among her greatest statesmen: he
was rather a famous professor of
as his classroom"
The Daily Herald says: "It is not
a tragedy that he is dead. 1t is a re-
lief. The tragedy was that he failed
SO disastrously to carry through the
plans he formed for a wise and gen.
erous peace. He might have been one
of the greatest figures in history.
His record belongs to the pathetic
class of those who might have been.
The pinnacle of the vast tragedy of
Versailles was the tragedy of Wood
row Wilson. The man who came to
save Europe actually assisted in it's
destruction. and while he signed the
fatal pact he still believed he was a
savior"
Under the caption "a Miltonic Fig
ure," the Morning Post says: Wood
row Wilson was beyond all doubt a
great American-very American in
his tenacity, his will, his idealism, his
respect for law, and, if we may say
so, very American also in a stern con-
fidence in his own powers.
, His end was tragic, but his dreams
were splendid, and he now takes a
sure place among the illustrious men
who have nodded the destinies of
America"