European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 27, 1990 the stars and Stripe for Wilson a a a Page 9 Princeton . Apr president Woodrow Wilson a behaviour was affected by decreased blood flow to the brain during his Oft criticized and ultimately futile Campaign to have the United states join the league of nations a historian says. Records that were never made Public show that Wilson was disabled by illness during the critical period in . History after world War i said Arthur link a history professor at Princeton University and the editor of a series of volumes of Wilson a papers. A it is one of the great tragedies of the 20th Century a link said. A a the Man who was most responsible for building support for the idea of a league of nations was struck Down just As his leadership was most needed. And he was struck Down by events Over which he had no the 64th volume in the series to be published in february will reveal for the first time detailed medical records kept by or. Cary t. Grayson Wilson a personal physician. Gray sorts sons allowed link to review the 70-year-old papers in May. Link said the records with analysis by medical experts explain Wilson a erratic behaviour in the months leading up to his devastating stroke in october 1919. Wilson a Democrat was president from 1913 to 1921. He died in 1924. He won the 1919 Nobel peace prize for his peacemaking efforts involving the league of nations after world War i. However he failed to win . Support for the league which fell apart before world War ii. Link said . Entry into the league could have altered history. A in a world with the United states playing a responsible Active role the possibilities of preventing the Rise of Hitler were limitless a link said. Wilson failed to get the Senate to ratify Isis Lulli president Wilson who had a stroke in 1919, is shown with his wife Edith in 1921. A file wanted guarantees that the United states would not be subordinate to the votes of other nations in Case of War. A in his Normal healthy state Wilson would have found Compromise with the Large group of moderate republicans a link said. Instead Wilson was robbed of a this . Membership in the league because of ability at leadership of his Normal what link said was an uncharacteristic shrewdness and deftness of his marvelous unwillingness to Compromise. The Senate management skills a link said. A the would lose his train of thought and get confused. He would contradict himself and eventually blow his against medical advice Wilson then 63, took his message directly to the people with a speaking tour of Western states in september 1919. The decision to go Over the Senate a head angered the very lawmakers Wilson needed to court. A the decision. Was not Only irrational but in the circumstances was bound to Book a a wry Tes a he forthcoming or. James f. Toole director of the stroke Center of the Bowman Gray school of Medicine in Winston Salem n.c., and or. Bert e. Park a Springfield mo., neurosurgeon Analysed the medical records for links Book. Toole wrote that the records indicate Wilson suffered from a disease of the carotid arteries in the which hindered blood flow to the brain. The president also had hypertension which worsened his condition Toole said. Park wrote that Wilson Likely continued to suffer episodes of internal bleeding following a 1906 stroke. This could cause injury leading a in time to recognizable behavioural disturbances that typified Wilson from late 1919 Onward a Park wrote. Link said the records should Lay to rest theories that Wilson a problems were psychological. A this failure in leadership instead derived from the ravages of disease a link said. A history has judged Wilson As if he were a Well Man during this link also said that the popular belief that Wilson a wife ran the government after her husbands devastating stroke in 1919 is a pure link said mrs. Wilson served As a Liaison but was not effectively an a acting president in Wilson a final year in office according to the medical records and journals kept by Grayson. A it is a popular belief a link said a but it has gotten More into the realm of legend than Edith Wilson did make two crucial decisions following Wilson a stroke link said. She covered up the extent of her husbands illness and thwarted suggestions that he resign. Link said mrs. Wilson Long denied being an acting president and once told him she was a never interested in Grayson a journals show that mrs. Wilson served As a link Between Wilson and his advisers but that the government was run by his department Heads link newspaper called lady Kong apes fashion fluff Tokyo apr with a shocking Pink picture of Tokyo a Skyline gracing its front Page Japan a first newspaper designed for women a lady Kong a hit the Newsstands monday with lots of fluff but Little feminism. As with virtually All enterprises Here men run u i y table id leading some critics to complain that the publication is not Likely to Challenge the subservient role of women in japanese society. A everything even sanitary napkins has been planned and produced by men a said Harueko Kato a communications professor at Tokyo women a Christian University. A and news coverage is not an the tabloids name refers to King Kong a Girlfriend. The name apparently is meant to show that women Are Strong too. Kato believes the most important aspect of the new daily newspaper will be a How the opinions of the female employees Are reflected in the decision making and news that will depend to a Large extent on Masahiro Kushima the 41-year-old Man who is the tabloids editorial seven of the 47 editors and reporters on his staff Are women but they Are in charge of Only the entertainment and City guide sections. The company specifically recruited male writers to work in the news department Oshima explained to give news stories a serious the paper reads like a typical fashion Magazine with a few pages of news slapped onto the front. Switzerland . End dispute Over Security for Bush visit Geneva apr Switzerland and the United states have called off a diplomatic spat Over scuffles and shouting matches Between president Bush a entourage and Geneva police Swiss foreign minister Rene Felber said sunday. He said the White House admitted part of the blame for the incidents caused by misunderstandings Over Security procedures. A the affair is closed a Felber said. On saturday White House spokesman Marlin Fitz water said the United states had planned to file a diplomatic protest Over the incidents during Bush a three hour Geneva Stopover Friday to meet syrian president Hafez Assad. Felber said the White House backtracked in a subsequent phone Call to Switzerland a ambassador in Washington edouard Brunner. He said the White House admitted it failed to Tell Geneva Security officers that some reporters and photographers travelling with the president should be allowed under the left Wing of air Force one to watch Bush come and go As is customary. Geneva police blamed a deplorable inadmissible behaviour by the White House press corps from the Start. Scuffles and shouting matches with police erupted when White House journalists tried to group under the planets Wing at Bush a arrival. During Bush a departure Security officers shoved a machine gun into the stomach of White House chief of protocol Joseph Reed and roughed up a photographer with the French news Agency Agency France Presse. No injuries were reported. Fitzwater called it the most a brutal and vicious treatment by a Security Force in the last 10 he said White House chief of staff John Sununu was a verbally abused by the head of Geneva Security when he protested the incidents. In its phone Call a the White House simply thanked the Swiss ambassador in Washington for its Short no Tice organization of the Bush Assad meeting Felber said. Reporters travelling with Bush initially blamed police for the snafu. They quoted a White House official As saying that the police shortly before Bush a arrival announced without explanation that they would bar reporters from positioning themselves under the planets Wing. But Geneva police spokesman Thierry Magnin said Security arrangements were clearly coordinated with . Officials earlier in the Day and there was no evidence of misconduct by officers. Reed could have been mistaken for a journalist because it was dark and he was wearing a Trench coat that May have obscured his identifying badge Magnin said. A we done to expect to apologize because we think we acted properly to maintain Security a he said. A on the contrary they police did their Job Well. A some american journalists behaved in a deplorable inadmissible Way. They did not respect Security measures taken by Geneva police. Or Swiss territorial one police officer at Geneva Airport Friday night said the White House press corps behaved like a occupying
