It is a fact, which Mr.Wilson has taken no trouble to conceal, that he does not value the advice of lawyers except on strictly legal questions, and that he considers their objections and criticisms on other subjects to be too often based on mere technicalities and their judgments to be warped by an undue regard for precedent.

This prejudice against the legal profession in general was exhibited on more than one occasion during our sojourn at Paris.

Looking back over my years of intercourse with the President I can now see that he chafed under the restraints imposed by usage and even by enacted laws if they interfered with his acting in a way which seemed to him right or justified by conditions.

I do not say that he was lawless.

He was not that, but he conformed grudgingly and with manifest displeasure to legal limitations.