WILSON'S MENTALITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 104, 1 May 1920, Page 17

WILSON'S MENTALITY.

"STINGING MAD." FURIOUS CRITICISM. (Special to "Star. -, ) 6AK FRANCISCO. March 16. President "Wilson's quixotic attitude toward both the United States and the Allied countries has stirred all the American continent as no other subject has since the conclusion of the World War. and daily the storm of opposition is growing immeasurably, and must shortly reach a big climax. As might be expected, Wilson's action in curtly, "dismissing" Secretary of State Lansing has added fuel to the fire of the great controversy, with the result that the Hermit of the White House, as the nation' 3 chief has been dubbed by some of the thousands of critics, has but a mere handful of sturdy friends to console himself in these latter days. Aiter analysing the Wilson-Lansing corespondence, together with statements by Secretary Franklin Lane and Wm. C. Itedfield, bearing on the President's actual knowledge that informal Cabinet meetings were being held while he was incapacitated, Colonel George Harvey, concludes in a recent issue of "Harvey's Weekly" that President Wilson has not gone crazy. He advises persons "who jumped to that conclusion to put the idea out of their minds for, as the doughty colonel-editor is convinced, "Mr. Wilson is himself, his old self, hi 3 true self." After terming the letters to Lansing the "most insulting and inferentiaUy mendacious statement" ever signed by a I President of the United States, Colonel Harvey writes: "No, Mr. Wilson :s not crazy; he i» just mad, not as a hatter, but as a> hornet that has been sat uponj so mad that he can't bear it without stinging. And Heaven knows he has reason enough to be. Think of it: Only a year ago Woodrow Wilson was not only the greatest man on earth, but the greatest where else, so far as we know. . . Hβ had fixed immutably the basis/ of peace in Europe; hojding the prestige thua gained, he had defiantly ignored the expressed wish of his own country, and sailed away on a floating palace to assume personal direction of the affairs of the whole world; he had received a tumultuous welcome from devastated France as the dispenser of the bounty, of the United States; he had defied and insulted the existing Governments of both countries by threatening to 'appeal' to their respective peoples if his demands were not complied with; he had swept across the Continent in a blaze of glory, not only being acclaimed a Messiah by the peasants of Italy, but tacitly accepting the amazing designation as" his just and proper due. A FALLEN" IDOL. "Intoxicated by M s success abroad, he perceived little difficulty m repeating his fluke of a success as having "kept us out of war,' and in crushing, by like delusive appeals, the hardly discernible spirit of America unc-er hi 3 own iron heel. One year almost to a day marked the climax of the glory of Woodrow ._-•» Wilson—one short year. And now! "Every bubble burst. Hated by lfe reviled in France, calmly ignored by tU'E. land, and awaiting , in his own couconditions a verdict, if he should permit one ■war-worn rendered, of violent repudiation sutbe "Daily has never been recorded in the except of the Republic. Xo gracious grtetrng-"**"' of obsequious premiers at the White House as had been planned by the Master of fche League and future President of the World. No League at all for the United States unless thoroughly Americanised, and perhaps not then! No further control even of his own party, which in caucus of the House of Representatives contemptuously rejected Iris military policy by a vote of 106 to 17. Xone of his original Cabinet left except Secretary Wilson and the delectable Daniels, a breakdown in administration, a partial breakdown in body. and a. complete breakdown in all but* tie husks of authority—all absolutely irretrievable. Is it not remarkable that he has not broken out before with something that would have seemed equally crazy? Quite likely poor Lansing happened to be the suitable goat to appear first. Anyhow, the first letter was indited—oily, crafty, insinuating and utterly false in all it* implications —m a word, as we have remarked, wholly normal." Colonel Harvey writes that the evidence proves absolutely that the President had known lor montht. of the ■ unofficial Cabinet meetings. He quoted I Mr. Redfield as saying that at the first meeting the membere present sent word to Mr. Wilson throtgh Dr. Grayson, and received a query from Mr. Wilson as to what business was on hand. The reph went back that the Cabinet was conoid I ering its duty in view of hie disability. I and no word of disapproval ever cam-. , from the White House. "WAOTS A RUBBER STAMP." : "A more ohiidish, silly and dieingeni.- ---'. ous pretext for doing a discreditab" . thing cannot be imagined," Colonel Ha: vey resumes. ''The whole "business real. resolved itself to a speciSc request fro: the President to the secretary to '?:' your present office up and afford mc ; • opportunity tt> select someone wbr> [ min<] would more willingly go along »■' ' mine'; that is to ,=ay, a mere ,-jbb stamp in 'human form, willing to ta, ' orders from Mr. Wilson, instead f>: Secretary of State, charged by tae LV ' stitution and under his oatii with t • ~i performance of certain specific dutie? "What lie wi!i do next, the good L<< may know; «.• don't, and we doubt th Mr. WiUon n. T»e =:4.'&te« su.*?;.- : .. The doctors ! *«•<• Unagreed or iied a> h.rt malady :rum :-'.-.e beginning. '1 only pi>r-,n who nad it right aim ; : from the r turl was Senator Mo.-ws, » ■ i wrote t.) a. constituent tha ft-- un Ii -too.) the ailment wa* \ " t e?ion of ; i brain wiili-h had inflicted paruhvi--1 the ieft -ids, inrlud:n# f- arm an-1 i •and 'if wm promptly jeered at by i doctor* and sn-erc 1 ai by tn<: t're.-id, himself. And yet. if Dr. Hiiph If. \oi or John Hopkins ran be relieved, t wa*, and i>. tiie real ailment. I "Meanwhile the famou« mansion in I avenue hum continue as tiie Wi ]|mii-p of Mysteries, and the a.-, adm.iiistrative pan n: a. governm I mt.n re-main in the haii'i> of a lady . two gentlemen «ho have yet to de=:pnateii :>y :hp peo;i!o as ajrenttho Rfjjaijli-. TliU be your consolat' ■" j pear .t jo but grin, ye need a<..