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insisted that "measures must be taken to see that 

 the meeting failed in significance." 

 Two pro- The next day (Monday, April 2) I returned to 

 grams Washington, where Lochner had announced a meet- 

 ing in Convention Hall at eight o'clock at night. 

 Unexpectedly this turned out to be the very hour 

 chosen by Mr. Wilson to appear before a session of 

 Congress called for the purpose. For although that 

 body was barely organized, and before new members 

 had had time to orient themselves, or parties to 

 caucus, the President's address on the international 

 situation, first set for Tuesday morning, had been 

 advanced to Monday evening. 

 The Bann- Duriug thc day a peculiar episode, the " Bannwaert 

 T^', Affair," took place in the Senate Office Building. 



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Knowing both the participants — Henry Cabot 

 Lodge and one of his constituents, Alexander Bann- 

 waert of Dorchester, a Princeton athlete devoted to 

 Mr. Wilson, later an officer in France — as well as 

 two of the five witnesses present, I felt considerable 

 interest in the matter. But as the best thing I can 

 say of the senior Senator from Massachusetts is 

 nothing at all, I refrain from further comment. 

 Those interested, however, are referred to a correct 

 account given in The New Republic for May 24, 1919, 

 under the title, "Not Strictly Accurate." 

 Visitors In the course of the day, also, news was brought 

 ^Bdtimore *^^^ about 5 GO Baltimorcans had already come to 

 Washington intending to break up the meeting in 

 Convention Hall. Lochner accordingly appealed for 

 police protection and arranged that admittance 

 should be only by cards distributed from the Federa- 

 tion office. 



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