Edward M. House Papers: Telegram
Colonel E. M. House to President Wilson
12. After receiving your No. 1, I got in communication with Lloyd George by telephone. He thinks that it is essential for you to come [Page 519] directly to Paris as soon as possible. His difficulties with the coal miners and other laborers culminates around the 24th or 25th of March and it will be necessary for him to return to England by then. If you arrive in Paris by the 13th or 14th we both believe it may be possible to settle the preliminary peace terms with Germany by the 23d and name a day for the regular peace congress in which the Central Powers are to participate. I have April 2d tentatively in mind for the assembling of the Congress. The preliminary peace terms for Austria should also be ready early in April. The Brussels trip can be taken during the interim between the calling of the Peace Congress and its date of assembling. I am glad you are not bringing your servants. The French Government are holding those you had at the Hotel Murat intact for you.