April 3, 1919

I wish it were as easy to refute all the attacks upon the President’s leadership as it is the one that is most often advanced here today. We are told that he threw a monkey wrench into the machinery of the Conference by taking no notice of the French program that was submitted to him in Washington last November by Ambassador Jusserand. While this paper was merely informal and suggestive, I could understand that the French might have been miffed by the way it was ignored; but as a matter of fact the French never mentioned it, and it is the English, and particularly the Balliol boys, who maintain that at this moment the President “torpedoed the Peace Ship.”

And the Germans, how they hate Wilson! I wonder if they will ever know what the Vaterland would have looked like but for this man whom they denounce today as a “sanctimonious traitor.” It would have been unrecognizable.