ABSTRACT
After march 14, 1919, Woodrow Wilson met Clemenceau and Lloyd George daily in secret conference; and, in the words of Mr. Baker, "set his teeth and struggled manfully by sheer logic and appeal to higher motives to move Clemenceau from his position, to convince him that these military devices would never secure to France what she really wanted and that there were better ways of securing the future of France." On March 20, House, whom Wilson was not keeping informed as to the discussions of the Three, asked Clemenceau how they had got on that afternoon. Wilson's opinion that Clemenceau had "a kind of feminine mind" throws more light on Wilson than on Clemenceau. Nothing less feminine than Clemenceau's refusal to be swept off his feet by Wilson's oratory could be imagined, and it is difficult to imagine anything more feminine than Wilson's response to Clemenceau's behavior of the morning.
