Edward M. House
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Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858–March 28, 1938) was an American statesman during the period around World War I. Commonly known as Colonel House, he had a relationship of enormous personal influence with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as his foreign policy advisor. He was pro-British and influenced Wilson's decision to enter WWI. Although he held no official position in the government, he often represented the Wilson administration to European governments before, during, and after the war.
Colonel House served on the League of Nations Commission on Mandates with Lord Milner and Lord Robert Cecil of Great Britain, M. Simon of France, Viscount Chinda of Japan, Guglielmo Marconi for Italy and George Louis Beer as adviser. In What Really Happened at Paris Colonel House wrote, "The question of mandates is one in which the American people should have much concern. It is not alone a new departure in international ethics, but it is one in which we have an economic interest."
External Links
- Philip Dru Administrator (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6711)
- The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour, ed. (pub. 1926-28) (http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=genpub;idno=ACL9380.0001.001)
Sources
- George, Alexander L. (1964). Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486211444.
- What Really Happened at Paris, Edward Mandell House & Charles Seymour, Scribners 1921
