The Washington times., 1918-12-31
PRES|DENT'SLAST
SPEECH IN ENGLAND

MANCHESTER, Dec h-Tne text o
President Wilson's speech at the Mid
land Hotel luncheon Is as followSS
YOU have again made me feel
the cordiaIity OF your friendship
and / want to tell you how much
1 appreciate Il, not only on my own
behalf. but on behalf Of my part
ner.
''It Is very Interesting that the
lord mayor should have referred in
his address to a very vital circpm-
stance in our friendship He re-
ferred to the fact that our men and
your men have fought side by side
in the great battles.
But there was more than that
in II. For the first time upon such
a scale at any rate, they have
fought under a common command
er. That Is an advance which We
have made upon the previous days
and what I have been particularly
interested in has been the generosity
Of spirit with which that unity OF
command has been assented to.
Praises Field Marshal HAIE.
Il not only had the pleasure Of
meeting Marshal Foch. who con-
firmed my admiration OF him by
the direct and simple manner with
which he deals with every sub
ject we talked about, but I had
the pleasure of meeting your own
commander, and understand
how they co-operated because !
saw that they were real men.
at takes a real man to Subor-
dinate himself and II takes a real
soldier TO know that unity OF
command Is the secret OF success.
That unity OF command did swing
the power of nations into
mighty force. ] think we all
must have felt how the momen-
tum which got into all OF the
aFmies was concentrated into the
single army. and We relt we had
overcome all the obstacles.
with our unity OF command
there arose n unity OF spirit. The
minute we consented to cooperate
our hearts were drawn closer to-
gether into corporation. and so,
from the military side. We nave
given ourselves an example for
the years to come. Not that in
the years to come we must sub
nit to a unity OF command, but
ii does seem TO me that in the
years to come we must plan a
unity OF purpose. and in that
unity of purpose we shall find a
great ecompense. a strengthen
ing Of our spirit in everything
that we do.
Jealousy q Danger.
ssThAra l. -
and nothing so demeaning as
jealousy. 1t is a cancer. II Is a
cancer in the heart: not only
that, but in the counting room.
1t il a cancer throughout all the
processes Of civilization and hav-
now seen we can night shoulder
to shoulder We will continue to
advance shoulder TO shoulder. and
I think you will find that the
people of the United States are
not the least eager for the pur-
pose.
81 remember hearing the story
OF a warning that one OF your
Australian soldiers gave to one Of
ours. Our soldiers were consider
ed by the older men to be a bit
rash when they were in the field.
/ understand that one friendly
Australian said that our men
were rather rough.
"On one occasion an Australian
said to one OF our men: Man, a
barrage is not a thing to lean up
against They were a little bit
inclined to leap up against the bar
rage, and yet l must confide to
you that ! was a bit proud of
them for IL. They came over TO
get at the enemy and they didn't
know why they should delay.
But now that there s-no com
mon enemy except distrust and
marring OF plans, we can nil feel
the same eagerness in the new
combat and feel that there Is a
common enterprise before us.
I'VE are not men because we
have skill OF hand. but We are