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Show PRESIDENT IS AGAINST WAR But He Has Not Changed His Mind as to the Submarine Issue. Washington, March 8 Senator Stone of Missouri, chairman of the foreign relations committee, declared in the. senate today, after a conference with President Wilson last night, that "so far from the president desiring to Involve this country In this disastrous war, his supreme wish is to avoid that calamity " Washington, March 8. President Wilson today authorized Representative Representa-tive Pou to deny as 'utterl' 'foolish" a rumor which had reached the house to the effect that the president had changed his mind and was preparing to Issue warning against Americans taking passage on armed merchantmen. merchant-men. Mr. Pou denied tho report on tho floor of the house. |