BOOK ON WILSON FUTILE SPECULATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800070032-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: November 30, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

NOV 3 0 1966
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DAVID LAWRENCE
, o on Wilson F `utia S
row Wilson, 28th Pres-
ident of the, United States,
died more' than 42 years ago.
Now comes a book about him
written by the late Sigmund
Fteud famed Austrain psy-
chiatrist, and William C. Bul-
litt, former United States
culation
events and a c:;; ,,t,d exami- for him to oppose the device,
nation of all acts and which the Senate sought to im- I
utterances , in light of pose by separating the League,
what was known the time of Nations covenant from the
they were made. Versailles peace treaty. Here
This writer, as a student at was a man who said in a
Princeton, not only attended public speech: "I would a
the lectures on
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ambassador to the Soviet
Union and to France. IE government delivered by Wil- ' cause that I know some day,
endeavors to tie together son but had frequent confer- will triumph than triumph in a
ences with him, particularly cause that I know some da
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis and the mak- when, in the fourth year of the will lose." day,
of national and inter- 'college course, it became a If Wilson had any of they
national policy by a chief regular duty, on behalf of the characteristics of a "father;
executive of the nation, undergraduate press club, to complex," they were hardly'
Look magazine in its cur- deal with Wilson as president observable to those who had
rent Issue prints a conden- ?. of the university on subjects contact with him personally
cation of the book and also a of news interest. ? and in covering his public!
rebuttal by Allen W. Dulles, When Wilson was nominated/ career.
former director of the Central for the presidency in 1912, the After Wilson suffered a
Intelligence Agency, who calls Associated Press assigned this stroke in September 1919, he,
the study "an ill-founded writer to cover the, campaign, was, of course, virtually
attack . on the character of., For more than eight :years. incapacitated, and decisions
% 7freat idealists." thereafter, it was a daily were made for him by mem-
ulles, wo studied under responsibility to report na- hers of the cabinet. But prior
Wilson at Princeton and knew tional and international news ' to that time he had the fore-
him personally for many from the White House. During sight to champion the concept
years
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"a deep note of bitterness in
this book."
The -chief point made by
the authors is that Wilson
had what is known as a
"father complex," and from
this all sort. of psychoan- ences of opinion. This corre- He Is to be revered especially
alytical conclusions are drawn. spondent, too, differed with. for his forthright and n t-
But Freud himself, who,never Wilson on some public ques- ?: ent advocacy of international
had any personal contact tions and wrote articles on and national reforms that'
with Wilson, admits in the certain issues pointing out that continue in the laws and
book that "a more intimate another course 'might' have policies of today.. He had his
knowledege of a man may been preferable. likes and dislikes, his prej-
lead to a more exact esti- The authors of the new, book. udices and his convictions. But,
ate of his achievements." claim that Wilson was a weak to find in the multifarious
It might also have been. character because he "never things that a President does in
on'eded that-nobody can prop. had a fistfight in his life. " Was' eight years a single psychs-!
rly make either a this really true? atric factor which allegedly.
psychs ; Y 'influenced the making-of all:
tric study.or any other ana- As the record shows; there his policies, is to enter a field,
ysis of a' President of the Is no question about the cour- of futile s eculation, especial.,"
V sited States unless there is age of Wilson. It required' ' ly In the absence Of convincing
n intimate knowledge of his fortitude in enter 'WorlA W
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ren w character jj'. q s. .,
an intimate friend of Joseph ine only solution to world
P. Tumulty, the President's .. peace. The United Nations,
private secretary.. Tumulty's its successor, is still struggling
admiration for the Presiders to carry out the idea.
never ceased, even thouchh Wilson was one of the great-
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