ABSTRACT
The momentous letter to Sir Edward Grey having been dispatched, Thomas Woodrow Wilson returned to his love-making. Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait was at that moment more important to him than all the rest of the world. The letter from Grey, which the President had not found time to read because of the pressing claims of Mrs. Gait, was the answer to his offer to bring the United States into the war on the side of the Allies for the attainment of their avowed aims. Upon reading Grey's letter, Wilson was somewhat shocked to discover that Grey expressed only the mildest interest in his proposal. Neither Wilson nor House suspected at that time that Grey was negotiating secret treaties partitioning the German and Turkish Empires, and that the secret war aims of the British coincided with their avowed war aims in only one point: the restoration of Belgium.
