AMERICA’S PLANS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1017, 9 November 1917, Page 7

AMERICA’S PLANS.

TEUTONIC ENVOYS. PEACE INFORMATION BUREAU. NEW YORK, Sept. 30. A Washington message says that the State Department has announced the creation of a Peace Information Bureau. Colonel E. M. House, who unoflicially advises President Wilson, will he head of the bureau, which is not connected with the peace negotiations now. It i s believed that President Wilson has tucked Colonel House to lx* head of the United States representatives at the World Peace Conference. Meanwhile Colonel Home will collect essential d<\la. He has Ixren empowered to go abroad, if necessary, to collect information. PURELY AMERICAN VOICE. Colonel House, interviewed, said that his task i s the gathering of data to enable the United States to speak with a purely American voice in (he. ultimate peace discussions. He emphasised that President Wilson did not sco peace very near, and pointed out that the United Elates, lacks statesmen possessing a. thorough knowledge ol (lie world’s affairs. “It is President Wilson’s aim,” he said, “to prepare the United Stales to speak authoritatively and to reach its own decisions. There is to be a concord of Allies, but the purposes for which tin' United States entered the war v. ill be applied to the solution of every p.ohlem as tar a.s possible.” Colonel House is, really being grounded as tutor to tin' American envoys. Numerous anlhoritiis will assist Colonel House. They are all Americans, and he will not make a ihx; i in on any (|ii' stion.