I merely send it to indicate what you already know, and that is, how very few can be trusted. Having a self-effacing manner, he did not hold office but was an 'executive agent', Wilson's chief adviser on European politics and diplomacy during World War I. He was a highly influential back-stage politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912. He was known as Colonel House, although his rank was honorary and he had performed no military service. Edwards wrote me the enclosed letter and, learning from Martin that Lowell was in town, I asked Martin to let him read the letter. Edward Mandell House was an American diplomat, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. Gordon can always reach me, as I keep him informed of my movements.115 East 53rd Street, New York. I could not get away today but I am leaving early tomorrow. The diaries, contain typewritten transcripts of three separate documents prepared over a number of years under Colonel Houses personal supervision. I have asked him to talk as frankly to you as he has to me which he will do if you indicate your desire that he should. His diaries, consisting of nine volumes, are part of the Edward Mandell House Papers at Yale University Library. It would be better, I think, to do it through Gordon as no one at the Embassy ever knows that he sees you.Sir William has opportunities for getting the entire picture, and this is what no one else has. You can reach him either at the Embassy or through Gordon. He will be in Washington tomorrow and until Tuesday afternoon. John Coleman has contended that House, who was born in Houston in 1858, was really Mandell Huis, a Dutch Jew. He has a story of absorbing interest which you ought to hear.
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