WHY WILSON WENT TO EUROPE
Mr Edward W. Bok (the famous Ameri* can editor) tells a story of liow President Wilson explained to hmrihis intention to attend the Peace Conference in Paris:— ■Risky," I commented. “For whom, or what?” he asked. ' For yon, and your personal prestige.’' I answered. ,
lhat is not the question," he fairly snapped out. "My pergonal future or. my political fortunes matter not. Tt is what I can do on the ground better than from this distance. I know I can not realise the impossible things that the people of Europe feel I can do. I know all that. I know there will be a tumble, •and I’ll be the one who will dk> the tumbling act. That is inevitable. No man can make good as a Deity. It's the cause I am after; not what becomes of me. The cause," 'he repeated, as he wheeled around, and looked through the window. Then an his eye fell on the distance where the Lincoln memorial was to be, he turned to me, and said: “I believe Lincoln would have gone."
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12200, 27 July 1925, Page 12
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