Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him

by Joseph P. Tumulty

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Cablegram—Paris.

Received at White House, Washington,
May 24,1919.

TUMULTY,
Washington.

I think our friends in the Senate ought to be furnished very frankly with the following reason, which seems to me quite convincing, for not at present publishing the complete treaty: namely, that if our discussion of the treaty with the Germans is to be more than a sham and a form it is necessary to consider at least some of the details of the treaty as subject to reconsideration and that, therefore, it would be a tactical blunder to publish the details as first drafted, notwithstanding the fact that there is no likelihood that they will be departed from in any substantial way.

WOODROW WILSON.

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Cablegram—Paris.

Received at White House, Washington,
May 25, 1919.

TUMULTY,
White House, Washington.