Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-21
PEACE CONFERENCE
is POSTPONED


ISOnJIllIRu IfOffl FiFSC rage.
been expected. because information
awaited from London had not ar
rived. However. about all that re-
mains to be disclosed is the route
the President will take and the pro-
gram of his movements during the
three or four days of his stay in
the English capital.
Confident just Peace Will Be Made
II am confident that the big coun-
ell of statesmen of the world will be
able to reach n just and reasonable
solution of the problems that will
be presented to them, and thus earn
the gratitude of the world for the
most critical and necessary service
which has ever been rendered" said
President Wilson in an interview yes
torday, referring to the approaching
peace conference.
The interview was given to the
correspondent of the London Times.
In it the President Is reported to
have stated his views on the dis
cussion of the freedom of the seas
and to have contrasted the evils of
the Vienna congress with a hopeful
outlook for the Versailles congress.
Lord Northcliffe, editor of the
London Times. has given the Asso-
ciated Press a copy of the inter
view, from which the following eX-
tracts have been made:
Vienna Congress One of Bosses
The congress of Vienna, the cor
respondent says President Wilson
told him, was a congress of "bosses. "
The delegates were concerned more
with their own interests and the
classes they represented than the
wishes of their peoples.
Versailles, as President Wilson
said the interviewer continues,
! must be meeting place of the SER
wants of the peoples represented by
delegates, and he added. There is no
master mind who can settle The
problems of to- day. If there is any
( body who thinks he knows what is
IN the mind of all peoples, that man
is fool. We have all got to put our
/ heads together and pool everything
we have got for the benefit of the
| ideals which are common to all
| ASKED whether lie would visit the
| Grand Fleet President Wilson re-
! Piled that he was afraid he would
not have time, adding that hp fully
realized that behind the great ar
mics there was the sIrong, silent
! and watchful support Of the Brit
! ish navy in securing the communal
cations OF the Allies.
Rcfers to Comrddcship
| "He referred also 10 the very
! happy comradeship and co-opera-
! tion between the British and Amer
lean navies."
! The correspondent then adds:
President Wilson, in discussing
| the role of the British fleet in the
, maintenance of what, at any rate
during the war, had been the free
dom of the seas for the free people
of the world, spoke with a sincerity
which no amount of writing can
convey. His accents convinced me
! that he is a believer in the dccency
and honesty of the Anglo Saxon
race. He said:
/ Generous Understanding Needed
"It is essential for the future
peace of the world that there should
! be the frankest cooperation and
most generous understanding be-
tween the two English speaking
democracies. We comprehend and
appreciate, I believe, the grave
problems which the war has
| brought to the British people, and
fully understand the special inter
national questions which arise from
the fact Of your peculiar position as
an island empire.
The correspondent declared thai
he left the President with the as.
surance ringing in my ears that he
! desired to cooperate with the Brit
ish and with all the Allies in s.