(There follow brief excerpts from statements issued soon after the death of Woodrow Wilson. Attempt has been made to select a phrase characteristic of the complete statement.)

Unknown Washington Woman: "If I could give my life and let him live, I would do so gladly."

William H. Taft: "He was the greatest figure on the world's stage."

Joseph P. Tumulty: ". . . When lied about, he did not deal in lies."

William G. McAdoo: "He is perhaps the greatest man America has yet produced. . . ."

Carter Glass: "His achievements have never been surpassed. . . ."

Andre Tardieu: "He was a perfect ally."

John F. Hylan: "He had a great brain." . . .

Frank B. Kellogg: "He sacrificed himself in a world cause."

Myron T. Herrick: "He left to my judgment many important decisions."

Newton D. Baker: "He was a bit

impatient of slow heads, and bitterly intolerant of bad hearts."

Bernard M. Baruch: "As the Ten

Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount ... so his concept of the League of Nations will survive."

Lloyd George: "Like the founder of Christianity, he prosecuted his ideal to his tragic death."

Philadelphia Public Ledger: "His work is done."

James M. Cox: "Now he belongs to the ages."

Hiram Johnson: "He was able."

Henry Cabot Lodge: "We stand with bowed heads."

The Chicago Tribune (related to Medill McCormick): "He failed . . . to preserve the rights of the U. S. anywhere."

Senator James A. Reed: "Profoundly regret."

Senator Couzens: "His intentions were always good." "Tammany" Murphy: "I join with every American in mourning."

Vittorio Orlando resentfully refused to comment.

Pius XI when he heard of Mr. Wilson's death knelt in prayer.

Senator Swanson: "A true Virginia gentleman."

Senator Bruce: "All that was best in the old school of Southern statesmanship."

Pittsburgh Gazette-Times: "No occupant of the White House was less fit, temperamentally."

Le Temps: "The principal fault was a love of glory."

Maximilian Harden: "The heroic Hamlet of American history."

Charles Evans Hughes: "The nation has lost a great leader."

Samuel Gompers: "I always think of him as the President, for he was the true representative of the idealism upon which our Republic was founded."

Thomas R. Marshall (former Vice President): "Splendid purposes do not die."

The New York World: "Woodrow Wilson is not dead. The mind was the man, and it lives."

Evangeline Booth: "Our prayers have been with him."

Raymond Poincare: "France cannot forget."

Bainbridge Colby: "I have no words."

Lord Robert Cecil: "Faith . . courage."

Archbishop Hayes: "There are no supermen at the Gates of Death."

John Grier Hibben: "Princeton loses her most distinguished alumnus,

Mark Sullivan (famed Washingto correspondent): "Wilson leaves no heir and no regent."

Thomas E. Rush (President, National Democratic Club): "Will be a great man when the U. S. Senate is absolutely forgotten."

Vienna Mittagszeitung: "... a tool

in the hands of Clemenceau."

Berlin Deutsche Zeitung: ". .

bloody dilettante of the most dangerous type . . . the straw man of Wall Street."

Professor Otto Hoetsch (Berlin University): "No German will shed a tear."