United States History - 20th Century - 1901 to 1945, Executive Branch, United States History - 20th Century - Wars & Conflict, U.S. - Political Biography, World War I, United Nations & League of Nations

The Peace Negotiations

Name: The Peace Negotiations
Author: Robert Lansing
ISBN: 9781406535594

by Robert Lansing

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Overview

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - While we were still in Paris, I felt, and have felt increasingly ever since, that you accepted my guidance and direction on questions with regard to which I had to instruct you only with increasing reluctance.. "... I must say that it would relieve me of embarrassment, Mr. Secretary, the embarrassment of feeling your reluctance and divergence of judgment, if you would give your present office up and afford me an opportunity to select some one whose mind would more willingly go along with mine." These words are taken from the letter which President Wilson wrote to me on February 11, 1920. On the following day I tendered my resignation as Secretary of State by a letter, in which I said:

Synopsis

Of these seven subjects of difference the most important were those relating to the League of Nations and the Covenant though our opposite views as to Shantung were more generally known and more frequently the subject of public comment.