Horace Plunkett to Colonel House

Title

Horace Plunkett to Colonel House

Creator

Horace Plunkett

Identifier

WWP21460

Date

1917 June 1

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Language

English

Text

My dear Colonel House

I hope to see Arthur Balfour when he returns and then I shall, very likely, write you pretty fully on the subjects we have discussed together in recent years.
I want now to send you my heartiest congratulations on the magnificent part the President is playing in the great world struggle for peace in our time and after. I have not yet been about in England but have met a good many Englishmen. I think it is not too much to say that, in the British regard, the President now occupies the foremost place among the world's statesmen. What a marvellous effect this one individual is having upon the life of the hundred million people who have chosen him as their leader, and how small all the political machinery looks in the national decisions compared with this one man's will.
Much as I regret not being in the United States at such an amazingly interesting crisis, I realize that I was bound to come back to my own country. I am inclined to think that the Convention we are about to hold will get the Irish question out of the way, so far as it is a disturbance to the world at large, for some years to come. I should, however, speak with more confidence if the Government would only make up their minds and let us know what they intend to do about the composition and chairmanship of this body, and also the precise Terms of Reference to it.
You will be glad to hear that my health is steadily improving and I hope, before long, to be in first-rate working form.Belive me,(signed) Horace Plunkett.

Original Format

Enclosure

To

House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/WWI0389A.pdf

Collection

Citation

Horace Plunkett, “Horace Plunkett to Colonel House,” 1917 June 1, WWP21460, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.