Remarkable Friendship With President Wilson New York, Mar. 28. Colonel Edward Mandell House, the famous American diplomat, who was one of the American delegates to the Peace negotiations in 1919, died here to-day at the age of 79.
He was for many years one of President Wilson's closest and most trusted advisers, and although they eventually drifted apart, Colonel House treasured the memory of his friendship with Woodrow Wilson to the end.
The sudden lapsing of the extraordinary comradeship of the wartime president and "the little gray man from Texas," which had carried them through national and world crises together, was to Colonel House him-Self a "tragic mystery." A letter written by the colonel to his friend, Professor Charles Seymour of Yale University who had compiled his papers, reveals the steadfastness of his devotion to the man ko had served as chief counsellor and "super-ambassador."
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streets of Houston, he became the intimate of the world's great personages in the momentous period from 1914 to 1919. A familiar but un-Obstrusive figure in the capitals of the warring nations, he was an acquaintance of Kaiser Wilhelm, Lloyd corge, Clemenceau, ai voe elo lect The quiet, self-effacing man who went about his important missions abroad so unostentatiously had been President Wilson's confidential adviser and friend since his first elec-lion, a position unique in American political affairs.
"He is a man," said the president, "of remarkable ability. He can hold things off at arm's length and consider them and cuss them without being mixed up.
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