A. Charles Mee, The End of Order (New York, 1980), 141.
1. Wilson had decided that America should have its own plan for peace and had his aide Colonel House develop proposals. On 16 July 1918 House presented his plan to Wilson who later developed a modified version of House's.
2. A comprehensive bibliography is available.
3. Foreign Relation of the U.S., Paris Peace Conference, vol. 3 , p. 104; Arthur Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers (New York, 1986), 145.
4. Lansing to Polk, 25 January 1919 in Robert Lansing, The Peace Negotiations, 136-137.
5. Alden Hatch, Edith Bolling Wilson (New York, 1961), 154; Edith Bolling Wilson, My Memoir (New York, 1938), 236-37.
6. Allen Sharp, The Versailles Settlement (New York, 1991), 108.
7. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 151.
8. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 151.
9. Charles Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House (New York, 1928), p. 330; Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 145.
10. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 145-46.
11. Sharp, The Versailles Settlement, 108-09.
12. Stephen Bonsal, Unfinished Business (New York, 1946), 59-60; Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 146, citing House Diary, House to David F. Houston, 24 January 1919.
13. Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 330
14. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 146-147, citing House Diary, 14 February 1919.
15 . Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 346
16. Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 330
17. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 146-147, citing House diary, 22 February 1919.
18. Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 340.
19. Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 336
20. Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 332; Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 147
21. Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, vol. 4, p. 361.
22. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 150.
23. Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, vol. 4, pp. 339, 348-50, citing Wilson Papers, Cable, House to Wilson, 25 February 1919.
24. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 151 footnote 30.
25. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 151.
26. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 151, citing House diary, 22 February 1919; Auchincloss diary, 23 February 1919; Bonsal, Suitors and Supplicants, 214.
27. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 151.
28. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 151-52 footnote 35.
29. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 152 footnote 36; Seymour, Intimate Papers of Colonel House, vol. 4, pp. 346, 349, citing House to Wilson, 24 February 1919 (received 25 February), Wilson papers.
30. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 147.
31. Tardieu, pp. 147-170. On French thinking on the Rhenish question, see McDougall (1986), pp. 17, 38-39, 58, 61.
32. Sharp, The Versailles Settlement, 111.
33. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 153 footnote 43.
34. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 153 footnote 44.
35. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 153.
36. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 154.
37. Ibid., citing House to Wilson, 7 March 1919; Wilson to House, 10 March 1919, Received by House 11 March 1919.
38. Ibid., House and Auchincloss diaries, 11 March 1919.
39. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 154.
40 . Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 155.
41. Tardieu, pp. 172-176; Letter and memorandum. Tardieu to House, 12 March 12 1919, copy of letter, Franzier to Tardieu, 13 March 13 , 1919, Y. H. C.
42. Walworth, Wilson and His Peacemakers, 153.