Show PERSHING DID NOT WANT WOOD SENT TO FRANCE SPRINGFIELD Mass las Feb 4 Major General Leonard Wood was wa not given a command in France Fance primarily pr- pr manly marily mariy because General Generl Pershing did not wish him to have have one and secondly because President Wilson Wison though crediting Wood with wih unusual unusual unusual un usual ability thought him apparently apparently appa enty absolutely unable to submit t this his Judgment to those who are aro superior su su- su perlor to him in command This question queston raised during th the war and frequently nty called caled up In th the subsequent years was answered t to today today to- to day when the Springfield can considering that Mr Wilson Wilsons death gave it the liberty made pub pub- lie a personal letter to the editor edito pf the newspaper written by th tho president on June 5 1918 |