ABSTRACT
Thomas Woodrow Wilson sent House to Paris to handle the armistice negotiations with the Allies. Thus Wilson began his struggle with the Allies by supporting House's threat to make a separate peace, and added a personal threat to make public his disagreement with the leaders of the Allies if they should refuse to carry out the several Points. House replied that since the Peace Conference was to be held in France, diplomatic usage made it necessary that Clemenceau should preside and that it might be unwise for Wilson to sit in the Peace Conference. House urged him to take a personal secretary at once. House then offered Wilson the services of his own staff, the head of which was House's son-in-law, whom Wilson disliked. Wilson spent three happy weeks showing him to adoring Europeans, and it is not remarkable that his confidence in himself and his mission should have increased.
