Clemenceau: Well, I do not object.
Wilson: You take a weight from my mind.... I wish to be frank, Gentlemen. I am not happy about the voting of the British Empire in the Assembly of the League. I can’t disguise from you that it’s a difficult provision to explain to the American people. It may antagonise them. I make a final effort. Mr. Lloyd George, would your Dominions be irreconcilable to exercising their vote in one Empire delegation?
Lloyd George: They would reject it, Mr. President. I myself would move the rejection. (A brief pause.)
Wilson: I put the question formally. That the Covenant, as drafted, stand embodied in the Treaty of Peace. (Aye.) Gentlemen, I thank you for your forbearance. These questions of the Saar Valley and Danzig.... (They pass to other business.)
The Scene Closes.
Scene III.
—The anteroom of a public hall at Pueblo in the Western States, during President Wilson’s tour on behalf of the Treaty of Versailles. September 25th, 1919. When the door is open, the speaker’s voice in the main hall is distinctly audible.
Admiral Grayson is waiting anxiously. Mrs. Wilson hurries in.
Mrs. Wilson: The President—it’s critical. He must be persuaded against continuing this tour.
Grayson: I have been saying that, ma’am, for a long time.