As soon as Mr.Wilson heard of the proposed visit to Great Britain he showed signs of irritation.

He at once declared that it met with his strongest disapproval.

When Mr.Taft remarked that the result of such an enterprise would be to draw Great Britain and the United States more closely together, Mr.Wilson replied that he seriously questioned the desirability of drawing the two countries any more closely together than they already were.

He was opposed to putting the United States in a position of seeming in any way to be involved with British policy.

There were divergencies of purpose, he said, and there were features of the British policy in this war of which he heartily disapproved.