Woodrow Wilson to Milton A. Romjue

Title

Woodrow Wilson to Milton A. Romjue

Creator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Identifier

WWP22217

Date

1918 January 26

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Text

My dear Mr. Romjue:

I warmly appreciate your letter of yesterday and take pleasure in replying to it. My attitude with regard to the proposed War Cabinet is that it would add machinery without adding efficiency and that to introduce men inexperienced in the great task we have been working at for ten months and make them masters of that great task would be hardly less than childish.

My opinion with regard to universal military training is exactly that stated by the Secretary of War to the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. It would manifestly interfere with and not advance our present military preparations and activities to add universal military training to our present programme now, and the question whether it should be added after the war is over seems to me to depend entirely upon circumstances which we cannot now forecast. In both these respects I am glad to find my own judgment in accordance with your own.

Very sincerely yours,
Woodrow Wilson

Hon. Milton A. Romjue,
House of Representatives.

Original Format

Letter

To

Milton A. Romjue

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WWI0924.pdf

Collection

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to Milton A. Romjue,” 1918 January 26, WWP22217, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.