Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-20
HAVE CONFIDENCE
|NU. S. PRESIDENT
Remarkable Change Has Come
Over European Solons
During Year.
EXPRESSIONS OF LEADERS
There Is Not Sovereign in the
World as Great"
Says One.
EXPRESSIONS OF LEADERS
ny ERNEST y. ORR.

Americans abroad were being ask ed
what their country was going to do.
what would be its position at the con-
clusion Of the war what did they think
OF President Wilson. Tho interroGa-
iions were not always put in the mild l.
est form. nor were the interlocutors
sparing In their remarks about the
"neutralIst and pac!nst" United States
that was making profit out Of the
struggle.
To-day tho position OF the United
States and the President may not be
better set forth than in the lanEuag.
OF some OF the most representative
men OF tho world. The Importance OF
both may be judged from the follow
ing:
BY Maurice Barres. leader of the
Catholic party in France. editor. mem
bNr Of tho French Academy:
There Is not sovereign in tho
world at this hour who disposes Of a
power equals to that OF the President
of the United States. He Is IA master
OF political strategy. He has achieved
what no has set his heart upon by
successive steps"
BY David Lloyd George, Prime Min
lister OF the British empire:
There Is no moro powerful country
in the world than the United States.
The British government is in absolute
accord with the words OF President
Wilson pronounced before Congress.
and l am not surprised 10 sec Mr. AS
Guith also IN plain accord with him.
The British nation adheres indubitably
10 what the President has said"
BY Andre Tardieu. French High Com
missioner 10 the United States:
THE Americans want to give us
their aid 10 the fullest extent of their
resources. They have adopted by a
single stroke measures that We have
hesitated over. They may make mis-
takes. but their general conception OF
the war, both in the military and the
economic sense, Is simple one, and
therefore better than our conception as
Europeans. who are overmuch inclined
To analysis and complication"
by Lord NorthcliHe, Britain's fore
most EDITOR
america is no CAriatrnas tree from
which the allies may at their pleasure
pluck glitterinE gifts. America will
80 long way for us. but We must
Hrst prove TO her VIC are conducting
OF the national notices OF the United
states is efficiency"
lily His Majesty, King Victor En-
manuel. OF Italy:
with it's declaration OF war on Aus
iria- hungary. the United States has
definitely established its place in the
world war that will assure the tri-
umph Of the rights Of the people. The
Italian nation has always Mad conf
dcncc that the unlimited support OF the
United States would never be lacking"
Ey General Illcsco, head of the Rou-
manian mission TO Franco:
"Roumana's eyes are turned toward
tho United States for help and assist :
ance OF tho generous people of the
great republic which has never been
denied to small people in their hours
OF need"
BY William l.. Rappard. Federal dele
gate OF the Swiss republic 10 the
United States:
The United States has stretched cut
10 Switzerland the protecting arm of
true and disinterested friendship.
There is in this magnificent act a gran
dcur and nobility to which no Swiss
heart can remain irrcsponsive."
BY F. w. Forster. professor OF the
University Of Munich:
NO German who has travelled in a
neutral country dIring the war can
fail to understand that America is in
the war in earnest. that the United
States are resolved TO combat for years
longer If it be found necessary, and
II, instead OF conciliating. we persist
in violating the rights of other peo-
pies"
BY Professor Moritz Bonn. OF the
University OF Leipzig, formerly assist
ant to Professor Dernberg in the
United States.
THE question OF what President
Wilson wants-that is to say what wea-
pons he intends to use against us. not
what his aim was when he declared
warts a question Of the greatest po-
litical Importance TO the entire world.
believe that President Wilson is an
honest pacifist. but the question now
IS whether he has not become Mach
politikcr. and whether he and his pow
crful people behind him are pursuing
policy OF conquest. He and the
United States face us with n political
problem that cannot be solved by force
OF arms!