The sun., 1918-12-14
MEDAL FOR WILSON,
BROOCH FOR WIFE
Municipal Council of Paris
Completes Plan for Double
Presentation.
TO CONFER CITIZENSHIP
All Details Are Arranged for
Reception of President at
French Capital.

PARIS, Dec. 13.--The municipal coun-
Gil completed to-day the last details
for tho reception OF President and
Mrs. Wilson. When the Grand Cold
Medal of the City OF Paris is being
presented to the President, Mrs. VIII
son VIII receive n gold brooch set in
diamonds with doves IN bas relief
bearing an olive branch.
BY a unanimous vote the council
decided to confer upon President Will
son the title Of q citizen of Paris.
The resolution proposing to confer
citizenship upon the President says in
part:-
We wish TO express our homage
and gratitude to the great President
who for justice and right placed
America by the side Of the free peo-
pies against Germanic oppression
and rendered possible the magnifi-
cent triumph which we have wit
messed.
Tribute is paid to American partici-
patton In the war and to President
Wilson by Leon Bourgeois. former
Premier and President OF the French
Association for a Society Of Nations
In an article in the Petit Pdrisien.
The French democracy he says,
will salute in President Wilson the
highest representative, of the Ameri-
can democracy. The day when Ameri-
ca drew the sword for the defence
OF civilization and right. she remem-
bered the day when Old France had
sent Lafayette and Rochambeau to
ply their swords in the service of lib
erty in The New World. The blood
Of ~the two nations, at the interval OF
more than a century, was shed for the
same cause.
United by Their Sacrifices.
"They are united forever by their
mutual sacrifices for the honor OF
their name and the salvation OF the
world, but the highest ideals triumph
only by the will of the men who serve
them, and the homage of Republican
France goes directly and personally
to the great citizen who, with untir-
ing straightforwardness, firmness and
free people Of America and threw on
French soil. covered with blood, mil
lions Of fighting men who contrib
uted largely to the final victory"
Concerning the project of a league
OF nations. the former Premier saws
that in his work to this end President
Wilson will be supported by all who
want a just peace. In conclusion he
says:
Mr.. President Wilson. you have
been up to to-day the energetic and
untiring promoter and organizer OF
war activities; you are now. with the
same energy. the promoter and or
ganizer of peace activities. France,
the eternal soldier OF liberty and right,
is with you"
Invitation From Liege.
o. The town OF Liege, where the Ger
mans were halted several days in their
first rush into France, has sent dele
CATION to Paris to invite President
Wilson to visit the historic place.
President Poincare. Premier Clemen-
ceau and Marshal Foch will be invited
to accompany him.
French labor will not take part in
the ceremonies Of formally welcoming
President Wilson to Paris. Premier
Clemenceau informed delegates of the
General Labor Federation that they
would be allowed to present an address
to Mr.. Wilson only in case the Ameri-
can President gave his personal per-
mission. The project. therefore, has
been abandoned and the federation has
asked its adherents TO join with the
people in cheering Mr. Wilson at his
arrival
LONDON. Dec. l3.--Charles W. Bow
erman. secretary of the Trades Union
Congress, and Arthur Henderson. Sec
rotary OF the Labor party, have signed
a message ION behalf of five million
workers" to President Wilson associat-
ing themselves with their French
comrades" in welcoming President
Wilson to Europe and assuring him OF
the support OF British labor in his
coming efforts to realize his lofty
ideals"