CROWNING INSULT PANAMA TOLLS DEBATE
PRESIDENT WILSON TELLS A STORY DOES NOT NEED TO FIGHT, (By Telegraph.— Press 'Association,— Copyright.) (Received March 31, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 30th March. President Wilson denied making a deal with Sir W. G. Tyrrell, Sir Edward Grey's private secretary, regarding Panama tolls and the Mexican question. The President declared that bucli a- sug- ; gesbkrti was the crowning insult to the number of insults which had marked the . Panama debate. j The President told callers to-day a story of two debaters in a country debating club, wherein one side, which was getting the worst of the argument, induced their most muscular champion to call an opponent a liar, thus precipitating j a pugilistic contest. Asked after this story if he was going :to fight, tho President smiled and said: "I don't need to."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1914, Page 7
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137CROWNING INSULT PANAMA TOLLS DEBATE Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1914, Page 7
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