Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-29
PRECEDED PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS IN HISTORIC GUILD HALL ELUCIDATING PRINCIPLES BEFORE DISTIN~
 GUISHED STATESMEN
CONCERT OF P0WER TO REPLACE BALANCE OF POWER
 COMING FROM EVERY QUARTER AND ALL SORTS OF MINDS
This Concert of Powers Must be Single Overwhelming Group of Nations Which Shall be the Trustees
 of the Peace of the World.

London Dec 2S-Speaking today in the historic Guildhall at a ceremonious gathering of Great Britains most dis tinguished statesmen. President Will son reaffirmed his principle that there must no longer be a balance of power which might unsettle the peace. of the world but that the future must pro- duce a concert of power which would preserve it.
 The presidents reception at the Guildhall carried an unmistakable note of friendship and admiration. When he arose to speak there was a prolonged outburst of sandclapping and cheering, and his talk was ire quently punctuated by applause. At the conclusion of his address, the audience rose with one accord and cheered, and it kept up the applause as he passed out.
 The distinguished government ann the other officials received by the lord mayor before the presidents ar rival, included Premier Lloyd George. Field Marshal Aiaig. Foreign Secre- tary Balfour, Admiral Sims, former 1 Premier Asquith, Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor of the exchequer and | the ambassadors of the principal allied government.
 After Presi lent Wilson's arrival, all were grouped on the dais and the lord i mayor in the center and President Wilson on his right, next to the Duke of Connaught.
 | The Royal Artillery band in the gall ] tedy played American airs, ushering President Wilson in with the Star Spangled Banner.
 In the course of his speech the presi- fdent declared the soldiers had fought to do away with the old order and establish a new one. The old order, he said, had for it's center the "un- stable thing called the balance of power, determined by the competitive interests, Jealous watchfulness" an "an antagonism of interests"
 The men who have fought the war he said, had been "men from free na- tions who were determined that this sort fthing should, end now and for ever'
 The subject of concert of power to replace the balance fpower, he re- marked, was coming now from every quarter and from every sort of minl The concert to come, he declared, must not be balance of power or one powerful group of nations set off against another, but "a single, over whelming, powerful group of nations which shall be the trustees of ths peace of the world"
 The minds of the leaders of the British government, the president said y;,,1r o1o %In1 nc his own and their thought had been that the key to peace was the guaran- tee to- it and not the items of it. The items of it, he added, would be worth less unless concert of power stood back of them.
 No such union of purpose had ever been seen in the world before he said as that which now demanded a con. cert of power to preserve the worlds peace
 Practical Minds Succeed Academic. Whereas it had been the thouhgt o1 closeted, academic men, he now found the practical minds of the world de. termined to get it.
 q am particularly happy that the ground has been cleared and the foun dations laid" he continued, because
 we have already accepted the sa.nt body principles. Those principles art clearly and definitely enough stated to make their application matter which should afford no fundamenta , difficulty.
 "The peoples of the world wan ) peace and want it now, not merely b. 3 the conquest of arms, but by agree ment of mind.''
 Such an achievement, the presiden 5 added, as this great, may I not sa.
 final enterprise of humanity.
 There had been just hint that thu presidents address would be the Ike. to the conferences he has been hold
 ing with British statesmen, and tn y address as it was delivered today wa s interpreted in American quarters a g confirming the previous intimation h that these conferences had been satis ]. factory from presidents viewpoint. l At the outset of his address Presi p dent Wilson declared he did not fanc . that the welcome of Par6 and Londol
 to him was purely personal, but rathe e that the voices of the people were ex t pressing not only emotions of gratifi cation that the fighting had ceased
 but also their conception that tn