The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-12-19
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PRESIDENTS OF Requisites Ex
CHANGE ADDRESSES.

. Paris, Dec. 14.-President and Ma
I am Poincaire gave a dinner AZ 'fhf
Palace de La Elysee, in honor of Pres
ldent and Mrs. Wilson. President
| wilson ON this occasion spoke as fol
lows, in replying to an address by
PRESIDENT Poincaire:
'sMr. President: am deenlv inaeht.
ed to you for your, gracious greeting,
1t is very delightful to, find myself in
France and to feel the quick contact
OF sympathy and unaffected friendship
between the repres sentatives of the
United States and the representatives
Of France
You nave been very generous in
what you were pleased to say about
myself but Z feel that what 1 have
said and what I have tried to do has
been said and done only in an attempt
to speak @thR thought of the people
OF the United States truly and to carry
that thou9ht but in action =
From the Arst the thought of the
people of theFEnited States turned to-
ward somethSng more than the mere
winning of this war. It turned to the
establishment of eternal principles of
right and justice. It realized that
merely to win the war was not
enough; that it must be won in such
way and the questions raised by it
settled IN such a way as to insure the
future peace of the world and Law
the foundations for the freedom and
1anD1ness ofsits many peoples and ma
tions.
Never before has war worn so ter
rfble a visage or exhibited more gross
ly the debasing influence of illicit am
billions. / am sure that shall look
upon the ruin wrought by the armies
o< the central empires with the same
repulsion and deep mitigation that
they stir in the hearts of the men of
France and Belgium and l appreciate
as you do, sir, the necessity of such
action in the final settlement of the
issues ct the war as will not only re-
buke such acts Of terror and spoi1a-
lion but men everywhere aware that
.heteanuot be ventuFed upon without
the certainty of just punishment.
II know with what ardor and en-
thusiasm the soldiers and sailors of
the United States have given the best
that was in them in this war of re-
dempt1On They have expressed the
true spirit of America. They believe
their ideals to be acceptable to free
plesSeverywhere and are rejoieedto
have played the part they have play
ed in giving reality to those ideals in
with the armies of the
allies. We are proud of the part they
have played and we are happy that
they should have been associated with
such comrades in common cause.
''It is with peculiar feeling, Mr.
President, that I find myself in
France joining with you in rejoicing
over the victory that has been won
The ties that bind France and the
United States are peculiarly close"
II do not know in what other COM
we could have fought with
more zest or enthusiasm. It will daily
De matter of pleasure with me to
De brought into consultation with the
statesmen of France and her allies in
,oncerting the measures by which we
nay secure permanence for these
happy relations of friendship and CO.
operation, and secure for the world
1t large such safety and freedom in
is life as can be secured only by the
constant association and cooperation
# friends.
81 greet you, not only with deep
respect, but as the represen-
ative of the great people of France,
md beg to bring to you the greetings
# another great people to whom the
ortunes of France are of profound
md lasting interest.
81 raise my glass to the health of
he president of the French republic
md to Madame. Poincare and the
1rnSn6ritv of France" :" ..~;