The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-04
BRITISH LEADERS
 MOURN WILSON
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persOndIly ne tOOk LiHe OH rom the peace conference for an occasional game of golf ana spent week-ends on trips to the devastated areas; but President Wilson stayed chained to his docu- ment" and the conference committee | freedom. as surely as did Lincoln. French Did Not Understand Him To the French and to Nj. Clemenceau, Wilson was incomprehensible, accord ing to Mir. Lloyd George. The Ameri- can 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 mo- ments, there was slackening and compromising and then to the French all of Wilson's idealism was sheer hy- pocrisy.
 One of Mir Wilson's compromises at Paris, which Mir. Lloyd George said he never had been acquainted with until yesterday. was an agreement between Wilson and Clemenceau. regarding the occupation of the Rhineland. The doc uments in the case. which had been in the hands of the British foreign office unknown to MT. Lloyd George, were sent to him yesterday with permission for publication.
 Mir Wilson's health according to Mir. Lloyd George. began to break in Paris in ApAl, 1919. after he had been sub iected to 'foul'' press attacks which the French unloosened against him because Wilson was adamant on certain treaty issues. According to Mir. Lloyd George, President Wilson had yielded to the khat thA be held in Paris and this attack was his reward.
 It was impossible, declared Mir Lloyd George, to place President Wilson with other American presidents. He was so unlike Roosevelt that comparison could not be drawn. His prototype un- doubtedly was Lincoln. but without the emancipators humanity"
 The death of Woodrow Wilson will make a deep impression upon the Brit ish people tomorrow it is not known to the great majority of the people to- night because Sunday is day when the English completely put aside their customary weekday interests and for get the newspapers and when the city dwellers make their exodus into the country.
 The prime minister, Ramsay Mac Donald, gave to the Associated Press the following statement:
 II am deeply grieved to hear of the death of ex-President Wilson and I know that the whole of the British na- tion shares my feelings.
 MT. Wilson had fine vision of req son and wisdom in leading Europe to peace and security. It was the high est form on earth and he has gone be- fore it's fulfillment. and in time to come the people will look back upon him and the part he played and generous iudg- ment will be easy. because he will be recognized as one of the worlds great est pioneers. send the sympathies of my government to Mrs. Wilson" in heir fellows and obey the law of love"
 Governor Henry l.. Whitfield, of Mississippi:
 Woodrow Wilson was the prophet of a new day for the world. Amid the chaos and confusion of the present he could visualize new world based not on hate. but on love-one in which the rights of man were recognized without regard to cline or race, one in which the provincialism of the pre- sent was superseded by world recogni-