Colonel House to Woodrow Wilson

I am enclosing you a letter from Weigand. I hope you will read it for I think he gives the true situation and it will be useful to keep in mind.

I am also enclosing a few newspaper comments which may have escaped your observation. I am a little surprised at the warmth with which the French received your address. There seems not to have been a dissenting voice.

Many of the correspondents of the English papers have been to see me within the last day or two, and it is the general opinion that your speech was necessary, and that it will be of great benefit in holding English sentiment steadfast.

The press comments that we have so far from Germany and Austria are less favorable than we hoped, but I am sure the message will do the work intended.

The effect upon our people has been and will continue to be of the best. You have gone to the limit, and if you receive an unfavorable response from the Central Powers, American people of every shade of opinion will feel that you have done all that was possible.

The proceedings in the House of Commons the other day were made to look favorable to the Lloyd George Government. As a matter of fact, quite the contrary is true. We will talk of this later.