May 4, 1919

At his urgent request, I again called on Dr. Morison from Peking who has been advising the Chinese delegation. He is ill with the jaundice and is evidently in a serious condition, but he hopes to leave for England in a few days. He said he did not wish to express his personal opinion, but he thought we ought to know that the members of the Chinese delegation were more furious with Wilson than they were with Balfour, whom they regarded as his cat’s-paw. Koo and all of them insist that Wilson said, “You can rely on me.”

“We did and now we are betrayed in the house of our only friend.” He felt confident the Chinese would not sign and that American interests would greatly suffer as the result of what the Chinese were united in regarding as a base betrayal.