New Britain herald., 1918-12-14
PRESIDENT WILSON AT BANQUET
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FoTOund and lasting interest. q raise my glass to the health of Ae president of the French republic Ad to Madame Poincare and the Fosperity of France"
 President Poincare Speaks.
 Tn his address to President Wilson,
 resident Poincare said: ''Mr President: Paris and France
 waited you with impatience. They
 ere eager to acclaim in you the il- strious democrat whose words and Beds were inspired by exalted bought, the philosopher delighting the solution of universal laws from Articular events, the eminent states
 an who had found a way to express Be highest political and moral truths formulas which bear the stamp of Immortality.
 'They had also a passionate desire I offer thanks, in your person, to the feat republic of which you arc the sSef, for the invaluable assistance 8aiCh has been given spontaneously, Aring this war, to the defenders of
 gft and liberty.
 Praises American Generosity. #T sE Intervene in the struggle she had own to the wounded and the or Bans of France a solicitude and a 8nerosity the memory of which will sways be enshrined in our hearts. Ae liberality of your Red Cross, the si1ntIess gifts of your fellow citizens.
 s.dnspiring initiative of American 4nen, anticipated your military and S8aI action, and showed the world I which side your sympathies in Mned. And on the day when you
 ng yourselves into the battle, with Naat determination your great people s Ia yourself prepared for united
 ceass.
 .ssome months ago you cabled to
 b that the United States would #ad ever-increasing forces, until An day should be reached on which Se Allied armies were able to sub
 hrge the enemy under an over
 elming flow of new divisions, and, # effect, for more than a year lady stream Of youth and energy
 been poured out upon the shores
 France.
 Honors Yankee Fighters. AsrJo sooner had they landed than sur gallant battalions, fired by their Ref, General Pershing, flung them Ewes into the combat with such 8 Anly contempt of danger, such #iling disregard of death, that our Niger experience of this terrible war Ken moved us to counsel prudence.
 ey brought with them, in arriving Ire, the enthusiasm of crusaders living for the Holy land. It'It is their right today to look with sAde upon the work accomplished d to rest assured that they have
 werfully aided by their courage
 d their faith.
 'Eager as they were to meet the serny they did not knoW when they Sived the enormity of thei" crimes. < at they might know how the Ger hn armies make war it has been scessary that they see towns sys- kmatically burned down, mines Aoded, factories reduced to ashes Schards devastated, cathedrals selled and fired--all that the de-
 Arate savagery, aimed to destroy #TTonaI wealth, nature and beauty, Aich the imagination could not con- i've at a distance from the men and Rngs that have endured it and today
 ar witness to 1t.
 Wants Wilson to See Ruins. E'In Syour turn, MT. President, you s1I be- able to measure with your lgn eyes the extent of this disaster
 the wrench government will make goNn to you the authentic docu- Ants in which the German general bff deveIoped with astounding 8nicism it's program of p1llage and sdustrial annihilation. Your noble snscience will pronounce a verdict on se facts.
 SsShould this guilt remain unpun-
 sd, could 1t be renewed, the most
 gndid victories would be in vain. BLMr. President, France has strug- Aed. has endured and has suffered Sring four long years; she has bled every vein; she has lost the best her children; she mourns for her \ Ruth. She yearns now, even as you !, for peace of justice and security. A1t was not that she might be ex-
 s0 once again to aggression that
 s Submitted to such sacrifices. Nor ss it in order that criminals should S unpunished, that they might lift ! their heads again to make ready gf new crimes, that, under your rong leadership, America armed &rself and crossed the ocean. Refers to Lafayette.
 Faithful to the memory of Lafay- Ee and Rochambeau, she came to the Ad of France because France herself
 as faithful to her traditions. Our
 mmon ideal has triumphed. To- Ether we have defended the vital Ainciples of free nations. "sIow we must build together such peace as will forbid the deliberate Id hypocritical renewing of an or A Anism aiming at conquest and op-
 ession.
 'Peace must make amends for the