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December 9th, 1918.

Mr. W. H. Short,
Secretary League to Enforce Peace,
70 Fifth Ave., New York City.

My dear Mr. Short:-

I regret that it will be impossible for me to be in Paris during the Peace Conference. I would like to be there and give the Paris press and population a few samples of genuine North Carolina “cussing” about the attempt of Theordore Roosevelt to poison the mind of Europe against the President of the United States.

I think by all means a few men who represent the principles of our League, are passionately devoted to those principles and who are eternally resolved to make the League of Nations a living force and not merely a Sunday School motto, should be present in Paris for the purpose of upholding the President and offsetting the pernicious influence of a man who cannot be happy except when he is in the saddle. The President is today the greatest living asset to the principles of our League. Roosevelt is the greatest living enemy to those principles, and our League ought to take steps to let the people of Europe understand that the people of the United States are behind the President in this matter, and have no sympathy with the fulminations of Roosevelt.

Sincerely yours,

[unsigned]

B-G