AMERICAN ON KING

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 March 1926, Page 5

AMERICAN ON KING

“THOROUGHLY GOOD FELLOW.” (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, March 4. It is now revealed that Colonel House’s intimate papers omit a letter to President Wilson describing his interview with King George on April 30, 1915. Colonel House says that he talked with the Wing for nearly an hour. “He is the most bellicose Englishman so far that I have met,” says the letter. “I had hopes that he might talk concerning the peace plans, but he evidently wanted to impress me that it was no time to talk peace. His idea seemed to be that the best way to obtain a permanent peace was to knock all the fight out of the Germans. He spoke kindly of the Germans as a whole, but as for his dear cousin the Kaiser’s entourage, he denounced them in good sailor-llike terms. He is the most pugnacious monarch that is loose in these parts.” The publishers say they omitted this letter because it adds nothing in the shape of historical knowledge, but only an expression of the King’s intense patriotism.” Another phase in Colonel House's reference to hlis visit to the King is: “I showed him, with some diffidence, a cartoon of Wilhelm hanging at the yardarm, the King thoroughly enjoying it. The more I see of the/King the better I like him. He is a thoroughly good fellow, and deserves a"T>etter fate than being a king.”