Evening star., 1924-02-04
MUCH LIKE LINCOLN.
SAYS LLOYD GEORGE
British war Premier Laments Will
sons Hatreds Which Blighted
Greatness.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
CHURT. SURREY, England. Febru-
airy AT his new country home here
David Lloyd-George, Great Britain's
wartime minister, yesterday heard
from the correspondent Of the Asso-
ciated Press the news of the peaceful
passing of Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson will become one of
the great figures of history" was his
tribute. He was man, and there
fore, had his weaknesses. But he was
the first to embody the ideal of
fraternity of nations into a concrete
plan.
Like the Founder of Christianity
said Mr.. Lloyd-Georse, ''the central fig
ure in history. and like Lincoln. after
him.. he prosecuted his ideal to his
tragic death. These circumstances, II
nothing more, would make his memory
last in the minds of men.
Wllson, like Lincoln and other great
ideal1sts, has not lived to see his dreams
realized. Nevertheless. his work will be
carried on to his own glory and the
permanent benefit of mankind. In the
national sense he led his country out
on TO the road of world affairs. from
which there Is no turning back"
Personal nimosities.
Plunging into an energetic narra-
t1on of the events of the Paris con-
ference, wilson's British colleague at
the peace table continues:
The tragedy of il all is that Wood
row Wilson's failing was his inability
TO subdue perSonalities-hiS refusal to
give up personal animosity This
weakness caused his failure to realize
his ideals during his lifetime. and in
the end 1t was this weakness which
doubtless contributed to his death.
IF the President had been willing
to- sacrifice personal prejudices to OBJ
tam the general support of his people
at home he could have realized his
league of nations ideal.
But Mr.. wilson could not overcome
his falling. Last year when 1 visited
him in Washington he still was as
bitter as ever against his opponents
MT. wilson walked on his weaker op-
ponents-a dangerous policy for a
great man. One can trample on great
men, but not little men-there are too
many Of them.
Tender In Politics.
But. after all. Mr.. Wilson was a
tenderfoot in politics. You know how
mosquitoes in some places in the
world plague the tenderfoot. If the
newcomer does not get used to the
pests. theys will eat him up. Some
politicians after being attacked for
years become inoculated to personal
criticisms. But Mr.. Wilson never
pgcR Tbey r. hhT MD political pin
tive nature Yes. it was the NOS
quito bites: it was those wounds in
ficted by politicians that broke him
and fastened his end"
Mr.. Lloyd George said the feeling
between Wilson and Roosevelt was
the most savage hatred he ever had
known. The former premier told how
he had first met Mr.. Wilson when he
first came to London in 1918. He did
not care much for him during the
he said that later he felt he under
stood Mr.. Wilson's personality and
was drawn to him, despite the Presi-
dents lack of common touch" which
he usually found characteristic of
Americans.
Hard work at Paris.
A contributing factor to Mr.. Will
sons breakdown, according to Mr..
lloyd George, was overwork in Paris
during his heroic labors to perfect
q lasting peace. The former premier
said that personally he took time Off
from the peace conference for an oc-
casional game of golf and spent
areas; but President Wilson stayed
chained to his documents" and the
conference committee. sacrificing his
life for his country and freedom as
surely as did Lincoln.
To the French and to M. Clemen-
ceau Wilson was incomprehensible,
according to Mr.. Lloyd George. The
American President embodied the
highest type of the idealism which,
on occasions, manifests itself among
the Scotch and Anglo-Saxons, an
idealism which, the former premier
added, no man can live UP to all the
time. Naturally, at moments, there
was a slackening and compromising,
and then to the French all of Wilson's
idealism was sheer hypocrisy.
Compromises Mt Paris.
At Paris, which Mr.. Lloyd George