Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — Wilson Note Causes Much Bitterness In England [ARTICLE]

Wilson Note Causes Much Bitterness In England

It seems that President Wilson in his peace note to the warring nations of Europe overstepped himself and as a consequence the relations tit this country with the belligerents of Europe is even more tense and if the United States was ever close to war with the European nations it is a cinch that the situation has not been relieved any since Wilson’s note was sent urging peace among the 'belligerents. A bulletin from London of the 21st has the following to say:

“The more England digests President Wilson’s peace note, the more bitter yt steels.” That was the conclusion tb be drawn from newspaper editorials in - the afternoon, which went even farther than those of the morning editions in the denunciations of the American executive’s moves. The afternoon press was a unit in its resentfulness. This bitterness particularly manifested itself against President Wilson’s assertion that the objectives for which all belligerents were striving are virtually the same. “It is a singular idea,” the Evening Post declared, “that a man of President Wilson’s persipacity can labor under the delusion that any move toward peace would be welcomed by the allies. The whole facts of the situation should warn him that intervention is not desired.”