- Historic Sites Herbert Hoover Describes The Ordeal Of Woodrow
Wilson The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as
witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first June 1958 |
Volume 9, Issue 4 All through these efforts we were compelled to
seek President Wilson’s advice and authority constantly, thereby
adding further to the heavy load he bore. His concern over the
blockade was profound, his prediction of its ugly results
accurate. He never spared himself in his efforts to lift it. In
the sixty days of the President’s first visit to Europe, he had
received stupendous acclaim from the European people. He had
established the major principles of the League and had secured
agreement for its inclusion in the Treaty with Germany by the
unanimous vote of the Conference. He had formed the organization
of Relief and Reconstruction, under American direction and on a
nonpolitical basis, against the solid opposition of the Allies.
He had defined American opposition to the tight blockade on
Europe, with its ec