Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-27 | Page 3 | Belgians Desire Wilson to Visit and Learn Facts

BELGIANS DESIRE WILSON TO VISIT AND LEARN FACTS By Universal Service. ' PHILADELPHIA. May 26. Belgium is hurt because President Wilson did not visit the country and judge' for himself the atrocities that were committed by the, Germans, said the Rev; V. J. Munsxer, chaplain of the o 1.0th field artillery, who brought this word back from Cardinal Mercier. During a tour of Belgium, Father Minister Mini-ster was granted an audience by Cardinal Mcrcler. "Wliy did not President Wilson visit Belgium?" was the first question the cardinal car-dinal asked. "It was the only way in which he could have known the great damage that had been done ,tu our country." coun-try." He added: "He should have come. Tell your people." peo-ple." the cardinal said, as a message to America through Father Munster, "that only for the United States Belgium- would have starved. Your country Is the real savior of Belgium. Tell your people that it is impossible to exaggerate the atrocities atroci-ties of the Germans upon my people. Indeed, In-deed, to make them creditable they must be diminished. In their true form the world would not believe them. They would think the facts were the inventions of the mind of hate."