The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-30
WILSON'S RETURNED
TO LONDON TO-DAY
President VIII Go to Paris
Soon and Will Leave on
Wednesday for a Visit in
Italy.

Manchester England, Dec, 80 tBy the
Associated Press America is not inter
ested in European politics, but she is in
terested in a partnership of right be-
tween America and Europe, declared
President Wilson in receiving the free.
dom of the city Of Manchester at the
Free Trade hall here to-day. America is
not interested merely in the peace of
Europe, but in the peace of the world, he
added
If the future had nothing for us but
new attempt to keep the world at the
right poise by balance OF power" the
president added "thc United States
would take no interest in it, because she
will join no combination of power which
is not combination of us ALL"
There was a feeling of cordial frater.
nifty and friendship between America and
Great Britain, declared the president.
which was based on the principle of
friendship and patriotism that led men
TO give more than was demanded. The
partnership of interests which had at
tempted the government of the world had
broken down, he said, as interest did not
bind men together but separated them.
Common, devotion to the right was ahe
only thing, he insisted, that could bind
men together.
In the settlement which il Just ahead
something more difficult than was ever
attempted before had to be accomplished
Ia genuine concert of mind and purpose,
the president said, but keen interna
tional conscientiousness would make IL
easy. There is great voice of humanity
abroad in the world (which he who can.
not hear is deal" he added.
I'VE are not obeying the mandate of
parties or politics." the president con-
tinued; 1--WE are obeying the mandate of
humanity" If the world is to remain a
body of friends, he said, there must be
an easy and constant method of confer
ence so that troubles could be taken when
they were little and not allowed to grow
until they were big.
Il wish we could, for the whole world,
enter league and covenant and declare
ourselves the friends of mankind" the
president added
The president said he was not hopeful
that the individual items of the settle.
ment which was about to be attempted
would be altogether satisfactory.
'NOne only has to apply his mind, he
continued, ito any one Of the questions
of boundary, of altered sovereignty, of
racial aspiration to do something more
than conjecture this There is no man,
no body of men who knows Just how
they ought to be settled; and yet if we
are to make satisfactory settlements we
must see to it that they are rendered
more and more satisfactory by subse-
quent adjustment which is made pos
sble. We must provide the machinery
for readjustments in order that we may
have the machinery of good viii and
friendship"
Less Formahty in Manchester.
President Wilson, who arrived here
last evening, found the atmosphere of
this city different from that OF London.
There his time necessarily was absorbed
by formalities and official functions.
Here also formal events have taken place,
but with a more democratic air and on a
more democratic scale. Here he found
hospitality which could not be warmer
than that of London, but which brought
him closer to the people
There is strong civic pride in this
metropolis which is in the great manu-
featuring midlands. Its people feel that
their city was signalIy honored in being
chosen from among other English cities
for the PRESIDENTS visit The lord mayor
is self made man. His home, where
Mr. and Mrs Wilson were guests, is in |
section of the city hall, where the mayors
live during their terms of office. 1t is a |
typical English home The rest OF the /
presidential party was quartered at
nearby hotel
Mr.. and Mrs Wilson sat down to an |
early family dinner last evening and soon
afterward retired to their apartment on
the fourth floor, The presidents DAYS in |
England have involved great physical
strain, which was apparent to those near !
him last evening.
The most notable engineering works in !
Manchester are the ship canal and docks. |
The first activity of the day was an in |
spection of these. The party proceeded
from the city hall in eight automobiles. |
Mr.. Wilson was received by Captain Ba |
con, chairman of the directors of the ship |
canal, and spent an hour on board |
small steamer which cruised among the /
docks. After his return to the city hall, /
Ross r. Holiday, American consul pre-
sented Americans residing in the city. |
From there it was short drive to the |
Free Trade hall After the ceremonies /
there, the official party drove by cir /
euitous route to the Midland hotel, where
at | o'clock, the president was enter |