The sun., 1918-07-12
ASQUITH PRAISES
WILSON ASLEADER
Former British Premier Talks
at Dinner Given for Amer
lean Officers.

LoNpoN. July 1l.-Sincere praise OF
President Wilson's leadership in the war
and his advocacy of league of nations
after the war was given by Herbert H.
Asquith, the former Premier. In an adj
dress last night at the National Liberal
Club at hospitality dinner to Ameri-
can officers" at which 500 prominent
Englishmen were hosts The dinner re-
solved itself into a meeting OF ovation
for the President.
Vice-Admiral Sims. commander OF the
American naval forces in the war zone,
paid tribute to the cooperation or the
Britt an and American navies and de-
cared:
The submarine menace is now at an
end. for we are destroying them faster
than the Germans can build them"
Atajor-Gen Biddie. commander Of the
American forces in England. evoked long
cheers when he announced that Ameri-
can troops were stationed at from sew
enty to eighty different points in Eng
land and Scotland.
Wilson Idea Lauded.
Former Premier Asquith in the course
of a speech urging the Importance of
President Wilson's idea of league Of
nations as the most urgent of all peace
problems" said:
THE United states as nation has
had the very good fortune that in the
supreme crises OF her national history
the man whom she most needed for in
SEPARATION and guidance has always ap-
pearcd Thus came Washington and
Lincoln. Washington and Lincoln are
illustrious names which have passed into
history.
We must not attempt to anticipate
history's judgment upon men still living,
but | will venture to say that President
Wilson has been the head Of the Ameri-
can Government in times no less trying
than any in it's annals
President Wilson has taken the great
est decision OF our age and has carried
his people with him In it. Moreover he
has laid before the world the grounds for
his decision. the reasons which justified
and compelled it and the spirit in which
it was adopted He has done this in
state papers which are worthy TO live
side by side with the most inspiring
utterances of his most famous predeces-
sors.
How to Win War.
1T is one thing TO embrace a good
cause. 1t is another to push it TO a
victorious issue. II a nation IL to hold
| its own on the battlefield these days IL
must be equipped on the sea and land
with the strongest battalions. the best
! and fastest ships, adequate organization
! OF transport and supply and even with
superiority in all the manifold me-
| chanical devices for aggression and de-
| fence which the helllsh ingenuity OF
| modern warfare has devised
America has had her difficulties
! They have not stltled, but have stimu-
! lated her energy and we grasp the on
| portunity tonight of acknowledging our
| unbounded admiration of the magnificent
contribution America has made. is max.
| ing and will continue to make in ever
| increasing measure. Here again we
/ gratefully trace the guiding hand and
driving will OF the President.
! Probably the world owes its greatest
debt TO President Wilson for helping
men whose vision has been blurred and
| blinded by the smoke OF the battlefiel ID
| to lift up their eyes and to look through
! IL and beyond it. 1t is very difficult IT.
time of war to keep a steady head and
clean tongue. President Wilson does
! both"