Part 33 (1/2)

I greatly value the expressions of your confidence and feel very thened by them

With the best wishes,

Cordially and sincerely yours, WOODROW WILSON

Hon Thomas J Walsh, United States Senate

While the President was in Paris, I constantly kept him in touch with the situation in this country, and that he was interested in bringing to the attention of the Peace Conference the cause of Ireland is ed between us

On June 7, 1919, I cabled Admiral Grayson, for the President as follows:

The White House, Washi+ngton, 7 June, 1919

You cannot overesti behind Irish question here It is growing every day and is not at all confined to Irishe of resolution of syht is but a slight evidence of interest here I wish the President could do just a little for I fear reaction here upon League of Nations If this situation could be straightened out, it would help a great deal

TUMULTY

The President hi the depth of his interest in the matter:

Paris, 8 June, 1919

I have tried to help in the Irish matter, but the extraordinary indiscretion of the Aation over here has al

WOODROW WILSON

On June 9, 1919, I received a further cable from the President, as follows:

Paris, 9 June, 1919

The Aly difficult, if not iently trying to render in thethe Irish aspirations to the attention of the Peace Conference By our unofficial activity in theof the Irish Representatives to Paris when the American Commission went to Ireland and behaved in a hich so inflaot quite out of hand, and we are utterly at a loss how to act in thethe Government of the United States with the Governht create an actual breach between the two I made an effort day before yesterday in this matter which shows, I am afraid, the utter futility of further efforts I am distressed that the American Commission should have acted with such extreme indiscretion and lack of sense, and can at thefurther to do

WOODROW WILSON

To this cable I replied as follows:

The White House, Washi+ngton, 9 June, 1919

Thanks for e about Ireland, Hope you will not allow indiscretions of Aainst Ireland Lloyd George's , for it has in it the elements of a revolution It is our own political situation here and the fate of the Treaty itself that concern me In this country the Irish are united in thison a propaganda, asking that Ireland be given the right of self-detere Creel, in a powerful article yesterday in the newspapers, said: _Quote_ The question of Ireland cannot be ignored, either in honour or decency _End quote_ I trust you can say a word Could you not ask that Irish delegates be given a chance to present their case to the Conference?

TUMULTY

On June 25, 1919, I sent the following cable to the President: