WOODROW WILSON

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 9

WOODROW WILSON

WMTINa HISTORY

Reports persist that the present and probably last work, of Woodrow Wilson is the preparation of a history of the momentous and colourful years of his administration as President. The events and the personalities who made them and took part in them will be presented as Woodrow Wilson aaw them, according to report Xsays the Springfield Republican of August 18) The law partnership of Mr Wilson witr tho former Secretary of State Colby is regarded by a number of his friends as merely something which affords him mental relaxation, an occasional re- I fuge from the work on his book. One story has it that with usual attention to detail Mr Wilson has "mapped out" the form of his work, and is now engaged in putting in the substance. Even somo of Mr Wilson's most bitter enemies hope that these reports are accurate, conceding that no matter how much controversy might storm around his work, the latter would yet be a notable addition to the literature of the period. The Lansings and the McCombs have had and are having opportunity to give their opinions; what does Mr Wilson sayP Many would like to know; and it is related that, other things being equal, Mr Wilson's book will be announced as ! soon as "all others" have put in their ! case, so far as can bo ascertained.

Mr Wilson is said to appreciate that his tenure of life is very uncertain and to feel that publication of his view will afford him very little pleasure personally ; but that it may give (jcheer to those who believed and believe in him. Some of those in high place whose dislike of the former President _ has always besn cordially returned 'have an uneasy feeling that his references to them will be bordered with acid.

McCombs is dead, but his hatred for those who stood between him} and the realisation of hi& ambition to Be as important in the1 Wilson administration as he had been in the pxsti Wilson caMp^ij^BTnives' tf*ltV him ik '■ fiis book, now. rbeiiag'published .serially. ? This is his posthumous revenge; but; he enjeyed the first taste of it while living atv the last Democratic national convention in San Francisco. ~Ek was ill then, waiting away; but his antipathy towards McAdoo drove him tirelessly around and among tho delegates. "Gad* Look at him 1" the late Dr John W. Couglin, of Fall River, himself good-natured over losing the^position of Democratic national committeeman; used to exclaim. "The; man is being eaten up with his hatred for McAdoo." ■;

McAdoo's boom for the Democratic nomination for . President collapsed, and McCombs, who helped puncture it, began work on his book.