Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-19

Washington, Nov. 1S.-PfpSldent Wilson will attend the opening se3- sions of the peace conference. This was announced tonight officially. He will go immediately after the con vening of the regular session of con gress on December 2.
 This official statement was issued at the White House:
 The President expects TO sail for France immediately after the opening of the regular session of Congress, for the purpose of taking ,art in the discussion and settlement of the main features of the treaty of peace. It is not likely that it will be possible for him to remain throughout th5 sessions of the formal conference, but his presence at the outset Is necessary. in order to ObVi;te the manifest disadvantages of discus sion by cable in determining the greater outline of the final treaty about which he must neceFarily be eonsuteld. He will. of course. be ae- companied by delegates who will sit as the representatives of the l'nitea States throughout the conference The names of the delegates will b. presently announced"
 How long the President will re main abroad he himself probably convenng of the peace conference ha not yet been announced, but the general belief here is that it cannot be assembled before late in December, at the earliest. If such proves the case, the President will be absent from the country from at least a month and probably longer.
 have made for his trip other than to attend the opening of the peace con ference and to participate in the discussions among the representa- tives of the associated nations, which will precede it, have not been rc- vealed. He undoubtedly will be ac- companied by Mrs. Wilson, and it is expected here that besides visiting Paris, where the peace congress will be held, he will go ton London and possibly to Brussels and Rome. MT. Wilson is expected to receive abroad reception such as has been accorded but few men in public life. He will be welcomed not only as the President of the United States and the commander in chief of it's armies and navy, but also as the champion of world democracy. In visiting Europe the President will establish two precedents. He will be the first chief executive of the United States to participate in a peace conference for the settling of issues growing out of a war in which this country participated. and he will be the first President to leave North America during his term of office.
 In reaching the decision to atten the peace conference, President Wit son is undertood to have been large Prmiers Lloyd George of Great Brit an, and Clemenceau of France, and other statesmen of the entente coun- l tries.
 The principles and terms of settle l ment enunciated by the Presiden have been accepted by both the as | sOciated nations and the Central Pow CTS as the basis upon which peace l is to be re-established and it is un l derstood that it is for the working | out of the application of these prin l ciples that his presence is so earn l estly deired by the allied statesmen Since the President is to sail foi France early next month, it seems certain that he will reach Paris l several weeks before the peace con l gross assemblies. His purpose is be l lieved here to be to participate if
 the confernc now proceeding at Yer
 sailles as the preliminary to th' 1 meeting of the peace commissioners He thus will have opportunity to dis 1 charge in person for the first time
 the> duties of his memberhip in th l supreme war council in which he il 1 now represented by Colonel House
 In the general view here the ses ! sions of the supreme war council
 which bring together the entente pre- ! miers with the representatives 0
 the United States. are of first i'm | portance for in all proba bility i
 will be at these sessions that th'
 general program which is to goverl
 the peace congress, will be arrans
 ed.
 The Preident will attend the open
 ing sessions of the congres at whicl
 the broad principles of the treat.
 will be settled, but he will not re
 main for the subsequent details dis
 cussions and settlements of the vari