New Britain herald., 1918-12-14
SPEAKS AT BANQUET Is Guest Of President and Madame POinCare and Gives Toast to
 Their Health and Future
 Prosperity Of France
INTERNATIONAL TIES l ARE PARTICULARLY CLOSR

ARE PARTICULARLY CLOSR Declares American Soldiers and Sail{
 OTIS Have Given the Best That WaS
 Tn Them to Help Win the World
 War-Presidcnt Poincarc RespondssA
 With Praise and Thanks for United
 States Aid.
 Paris, Dec. 14.-President andA Madame Poincare gave a luncheon aS the Palace de la Elysee in honor o4 President and Mrs. Wilson. PresidentA Wilson, on this occasion, spoke as fol<H lows in replying to an address bAH President Poincare:
 MT. President: I am deeply in<# debted to you for your gracious greet<A self in France and to feel the quicH& contact of sympathy and unaffectedE E friendship between the representativeaH of the United States and the repre4H sentatives of France -
 You have been very generous iuH what you were pleased to say aboutH myself but I feel that what I have# said and what I have tried to do has been said and done only in an attempt N to speak the thought of the people ofA the United States truly, and to carryM that thought out in action.
 Wants More Than Victory.
 From the first the thought of thaM people of the United States turnedM toward something more than the meraM \ winning of the war. It turned to ths# establishment of eternal principles of# right and justice It realized that@ merely to win the war was not enough M that 1t must be won in such a waY@ and the questions raised by it settled@ @ in such a way as to insure the futura q peace of the world and lay the foun- dations for the freedom and happiness# # of its many peoples and nations. M
 Never before has war worn sd& terrible visage or exhibited mora# grossly the debasing influence o# illicit ambitions. I am sure that MI shall look upon the ruin wrought by# the armies of the Central EmpireaM with the same repuIsion and deep in @ dignation that they stir in the heart s of the men of France and Be1giun m # and l appreciate, as you do, sir. the# necessity of such action in the fina M settlement of the issues of the war asM will not only rebuke such acts o8 terror and spoliation, but make menM everywhere aware that they cannot be& ventured upon without the oertaintyM M of just punishment
 Praises American Fighters. 8
 1T know with what ardor and en M thusiasm the soldiers and sailors od the United States have given the bestS48 that was in them to this war of re demption They have expressed tn e# true spirit of America They be- W lieve their ideals to be acceptable toSM free peoples everywhere and are re @ joiced to have played the part theyb# have played in giving reality to those ideals in cooperation with the armies H of the Allies. We are proud of tho part they have played and we are e happy that they should have been as B sociated with such comrades in common cause.
 Tt is with peculiar feeling. MT M President, that l find myself in @ France joining with you in reioicin H3s over the victory that has been won z} The ties that bind France and th United States are peculiarly close. do not know in what other comrade ship we could have fought with more vest or enthusiasm. It will daily bd a matter of pleasure with me to be% brought into consultation with tn sHH statesmen of France and her allies iyf the measures by which wa NJ may secure permanence for these e#& happy relations of friendship and co 8 operation, and secure for the worIf S at large such safety and freedom irn& It's life as can be secured only by in e association and co-operstfoYkaS of friends
 Toast to French Republic.
 II greet you, not only with deerN N personal respect, but as the repre- a sentative of the great people France, and beg to bring you the greetings Of another great people tx
 &Ceala1sd on Ninth RasaA