Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1921, Page 3

TWILSON SEEN AS STRATEGIST | IN ARMY AND NAVY WARFARE Credit for Demanding American Leaders 1 for Troops and Pushing North Sea E Barrage Given War President. r 1 . itn pursue in such armed help as we 7 he Navy. |might be able to give. exuert Seerelary| oM thenNary: Obvio we had no ready-made, trained and disciplined army to ARTICLE 8. . S . _|overseas — at least not of President Wilson never je!’t my of rength as to be a considerable I = fice. and 1 never left a White House| tor in the situation. It was not un- conference during the war ars}n;‘nurm. nor wholly unreasonable, vitho i | that the allies should suggest the hest Without the reflection shapin itselt| i) “PS &L ShOUI SHERER he DT | in my mind that the world had lost a| place such forces as we could ra great military leader when it gained under allied command, where, i1 asso- E el e e | ciation with the trained and veteran 2 = i | troops of France and Great Britain, t was President Wilson, who, be-|they would find support and learn fore we entered the war, saw that the| more readily the lessons that the only hope of the allies lay in ac | fighting man must know. ing unity of command. President Vetoes Plan. 1+ was President Wilson who ad-| Admiral Sims, together with some vocated this policy when we gained|Other Americans, was inclined to the right to a voice in the military agree with the allies that this plan e anctsiiof e'm";:fes‘f"‘“ were fighting| wag the one we should adopt. ’ Jt vas President Wilson who re-| But not so the President. He dis- Bisted the strong urging of some of|misse S s he his American_advisers. and of the dFhek pxopotal ey foona % British and French military authori-| heard of it. Gen. Pershing was equal- :ies,bto permit our American soldiers|ly emphatic lln rvnudlaung (‘;. ‘lftht;: o be used merely as replacement ad recommended it. - troops for the allied armies. - President Wilson would hav It was President Wilson who insist-' been tempted most strongly to recall ®d that the American forces must be|him. The President believed America organized as American army units.| could raise and train an expeditionary 3 S arry to i field this policy Into effect at the earliest! wii ine meraual place in the fe iy o with the veteran armies and do_its It was President Wilson who con- ;“"hs’!a‘“e fobumgiviclory BHe had “tended that America must be in po-|f3ith in American capacity, and he amition on land and water to carry the|knew that Americans would never Swar through to victory, even if the|fight so well under alien leadership as ies were forced to abandon it. ey woul under the comman o Wil forced band th, 1d _und, h d of their own officers Stay Through Till Victory. ; ki - But this determination on the Pres This _extreme possibility he en- : s Svisaged, and when we entered the|dent's part to keep the American BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Pwar he had resolved in his soul that,|forces independent neither prevented vhatever might befall Great Britain,|the use of American troops in the ¥¥rance, Italy or Japan, the United|brigades of British and French ar- tates would stick until autocracy *was beaten. It was this resolute pur- ose which made his leadership so spiring to those of us who served “*with him through days which were al- ways anxious and not infrequently Wiscouraging. In matters affecting the Navy he #was as wise and as forceful as in mili- | %ary matters. He saw at once the vital importance ®©f making egress for the U-boat dif- « flcult if not impossible. If it was not ! practicable to go into the rat holes jand kil all the rats, the same end might be attained by stopping the Toles up, or, failing even that, by set- ting traps so hickly around the holes that rats attempting to get by would Tun serious peril of being caught. Wilson Genius in War. Newton Baker could tell many an { ncident to illustrate the almost in-| occasio { spired genius of Woodrow Wilson in| “Daniels, why don't the British con- | dealing _with army problem. 1} voy their merchant ships, and thu have no doubt he will some day. Nat- protect them from the submarines? urally I am more familiar with his| He e back to this question fre- gift of strategy as displayed in solv-| quently. He could not see the wisdom ing naval problems. Before I relate|of the British plan of dispersion, al- some incidents from my own experi-i though there were some able Amer- ence which throw light upon this|ican naval officers who approved it. ! phase of the former President's many-| To him it seemed a false strategy. sided character, I want to outline| This opinion became a conviction more fully the general situation and|with him as the sinkings continued circumstances which form the basis|ang the situation grew daily more se- for the,assertions I have made con-| rigus. cerning 'his military leadership in the . opening paragraphs of this article. Strongly Favors Convoy. Almost immediately following our| “This theory of reducing the dan- declaration of war we began hearing| ger by sailing ships separately has from Great Britain and France sug-| been demonstrated to be wrong,” he Bestions as to the wise course for us! would say. “Why now, with their SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. QWING TO DEATH IN THE FAMILY MY | CALIFORNIA POOL CAR ABOUT APRIL 29th, effices and sards will be closed Thursday and | reduced rates, greater security, for bousehold £0ods_and personal effects. SECURITY STORAGE CO., 1140 15th at. PR s R ing een z an IS ans Vi LIAM J. CRAWFORD, trading as RILEY & = CRAWFORD, auto repair business, rear 1414 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE F(I)’l’l mzm}; Y_n:;-. S :‘u been dissolved this day by contracted for by oy other than by myself. = 2 Fon e WILLIAM J. CRAWFORD has sold his in- BN REED. 155 FsC e 1 | torent fo THOMAS L. STALLING. who with “YOUR_ OLD WOOD FLOOR PLANED, | WILLIAM T. 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The President followed the devel- opment of the military and naval strategy of the contending nations with keenest and most critical inter- est before we entered the war. 1 recall his saying to me on one Camp Meigs, Genuine Satisfaction. AboutApeil],29:% Kedu P M e security: honsehold_good: —§E317PMMg > = SECCRITY STORA( MONEY WANTEI —is what you waat —and what you get here. The National Capital Press 12101212 D St. N.W. Use the Phone —when you learn that there's a leak in the reof The number to ecall is Nerth 231. R. K. FERGUSON, Inc. 1114 9th St. Phone North 231232, Roofing Experts. The Shade Shop W. BTOKES SAMMONS 830 13th St. M Get Our New Low Prices* on Window Shades to Order. CLAFLIN OPTICAL CO. For Magnifiers and Thermometers. 907_F_STRE “Glove and Shirt. Hospital 726 13th Street N.W. Don’t Wear Mended Shirts. CO., 1140 15th_s LOAN OF 36,000, SE- cured by first mortgage on business brope: 1ith near R: P adrens xceptional secarity. 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It tified in the eves of the naval au- thorities of three great nations the wisdom of the scholarly idealist, whose genius for practical sugges- tion never ceased to be a cause for wonder and admiration on the part of those who were closely associated with him, His brilliant mind gave further evidence of its gift for strategy in his contention from the day we en- tered the war that the only way to beat the U-boat warfare of Germany to bar the U-boats from acces: to waters traversed by allied ship- ping. Willing to Take Risk. He was willing to run tremendous risks and to suffer heavy losses if there were a possibility of destroying the U-boats nes Speaking to the officers and crew of the Pennsylvania, he said “We are hunting hornets all over the farm and letting the nest alone. None of us know how to go to the nest and crush it, and yet I despair of hunting for hornets all over the sea, when I know where the mest 1s, and I know that the nest is breeding horncts as fast as I can find them. 1 m willing. for my part, and 1 know ou are willing, for 1 know the stuff ou are made of—I am willing to sae= A e vifice half the Navy. Great Britan| It's jest about got t’ th’ p and we together have to crush thejyihere ownin’ a home is like nest, because if we crush it the warj. ' g is won." in’ in a furnished apartmer ahofBritisntagmirelty, howevor Nuee when you move out you ha inclined ‘to be exceedingly cautious. | o0 fhin Coprright and the President’'s proposals failed to evoke the response he had reason to hope for. “Every time we have suggested any thing to the British admiralty,” he said, talking on the deck of the Penn- sylvania in the summer of 1917, “the eply has come back that virtually amounts to this: That it had never been done in that way. I felt like ying, ‘Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.’ Therefore, I should 1 miralty of the overshadowing ne sity of constructing the North ing_the ing the Br miralty to join combined a 2 upon the hor nests, the President proposed stretching of reen that w catch the hornets before they tered along the British and F ty of persuad- encourage and stimulate. ter service was invaluable to - us pressure of affair: a typewritten quer: dum, bearing the initials Those “W. W.” notes ne spare word, and they s same clearness and vision John Hays tells us Lincoin W. W owed was born with it. Department, to consult, suggest. and, 1 think, frequently with the desire to This lat- When he couid not come because of he would send us or memoran- er had a the which ad when When Thomas Woodrow Wilson was @ boy—before torics to th. er's decree. r who would have destro many precedents and won many vic- when his father snatched him from the topsail and sent him down | below political economy. stuc he accepted Navy 1 The Maj. J d | temporarily suspe of the Oteen Hosp public health service. per vestigation by a board of ir You BOOk Want New or Used: Current or Out-of-Print of languages and | l Want || For the Properties, R he would go over to see Stanton in . the dark days of the civil war., Try Pearlman’s I:_:?’: Yist Your Feeper Keen Naval Instinct. S = ¥ | President Wilson's interest was| (Another article by former Secretary foor mick Seraton Ellerson ithe ¢ = fMcial. He | Danicls will be printed in The Star 933 G St. N.W. neither perfunctory nor official. ristiniat bidy had the keenest naval instinct. He he dropped the “Thomas' for himself a naval career. books. He had a penchant for sail ing; he loved sea tales, and his ambi tion was to follow Jones and Farra. gut and Dewey. Thomas Woodrow's father, a schol chance in substance: HEATING {] By Hot-Water, Steam or Vapor- H Pressure Systems If you need a new System, a new Heater, or other Repairs, take it up with us now. Prices down. Good workmen are avail- {1 able. |Biggs Heating Co. came to £o to you ar oint liv-| | nt— ain't in 4 nets the ould at- ench s e! A st nd the lanes of ocean traffi 3¢ to see something unusual happen,{COASIS ar 5 W. H. Gottlieb, H. E. Huntsberry, sometHing that never has been done| I have told the story of this re- Fres. Vice Pr 5 2 her: way fo|markable achievement in another of 917 H St. NW. - before. There is no o S the articles in this series. The Pre t. 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