The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-17
ppFsIDENT WILSON, GUEST OF
HONOR IN FRANCE, RE-
CEIVED WITH ACCLAIM.
SOCIAL DUTIES HEAVY; ROYAL
ENTERTAINMENTS ARE PLANNED

Inter-AlIied Conferences to Be Re-
sumed in a Few Days, and Formal
Sittings of Delegates Will Begin
Soon After January Mot Too
Much Publicity.
With President Wilson now in
Paris it is expected that the prelimi-
naries leading up to the peace con-
feernce will begin in earnest. The
inter-allied conference, it is believed,
will be reassembled in three or four
DAYS. and the first formal sitting of
the entente allied and United States
delegates now is planned for January
3rd. These meetings will be for the
actual framing of the preliminary
draft of the peace treaty for presen-
tation to the grand peace council,
which is not expected to be convoked
until spring.
Social Duties Come First.
There is no hope for anything but
few impromptu conferences until
after the first of the year. For the
next several days teh American eX-
ecutive is going to be the official
guest of France. Social duties will
eclipse all else. Following this will
come the Christmas season, the first
real Christmas season England,
France, Belgium and Italy have had
for five years, so little in the way of
international diplomacy will be ac-
complished during this period.
There will be state dinners, recep-
tons. troop reviews and official calls
galore, and perhaps gala night at
the opera, as part of the official re-
ception The day the president
reached Paris was declared an official
holiday in the capital. All the schools
closed their doors, and the peoples
greeting to the head of the Ameri-
can nation was one of the greatest
the French capital has witnessed in
several generations.
Will Officially Visit Pope.
London and Rome are making
preparations of equal magnifcence
for the expected visits of the Amer
lean president to the capitals of Eng
land and Italy. The president, &C
cOrding to announcement, will go to
Rome just before Christmas, and he
will remain there four days as the
guest of the Italian nation. During
his stay in the Italian capital the
president will pay an official visit to
Pope Benedict and Cardinal Gaspar-
ri, the papal secretary of state. The
date of the visit will be December %,
according to an announcement made
by Thomas Nelson Page, the Ameri-
can ambassador at Rome.
President and Mrs. Wilson, with
their party, will be met at the rail
road station in Rome by all the mem
bers of the cabinet, the mayor of
Rome, representative of the Italian
municipality and prominent Italians
who wear the Order of Annunziata,
which entities them to rank as cousins
Of the king. The American presi-
dent and his party will be lodged in
state while in Rome, and they will be
received at the royal palace by King
Victor Emanuel and the queen. The
presideuC and Mrs. Wilson also will
pay visit to Dowager Queen Mar
gherita, and afterward will have
lunch with the royal family
Royal Banquets and Luncheons.
There will be luncheons and ban
quets every afternoon and evening,
including a state banquet, at which
King Victor Emanuel and the presi-
dent will exchange toasts, and at the
capital one afternoon the ceremony
Of comforting Roman citizenship on
President Wilson will take place. SO
many societies, clubs, associations
and municipalities have requested the
honor of paying homage to the