The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-21
must POOL ALL"
President Wilson Talks to Lon
don Times Correspondent.
Says Allied Delegates VIII
Have To Get Together.
iAND JOIN ALL INTERESTS
"FOr Benefit of Ideals Which
Are Common to ALL"
Goal of Conference To Safe
guard From Future Wars.

Paris. Dec. 21.-Presidelt Wilson
: in an interview with the Paris cor
/. respondent Of the London Times, de-
: clared it is necessary that the dele
gates get together and pool everything
. they have got for the benefit of the
Ideals which are common to all"
He expressed confidence the peace
conference will be able to reach a
! just and reasonable solution of the
problems presented to earn the graft
{ tude of the world for the most critical
I and necessary service which has ever
been rendered it,"
Goal of Conference.
Replying TO a question as to what
X Is the great purpose and goal of the
peace conference. the president said:
! Il think the plain man in the street
could answer that question as well as
/. The plain people of all nations are
Z now looking with anxious expectation
toward Versailles and / am sure they
are asking themselves this one ques-
J ton: VIII there be found enough wis
: dom among the statesmen assembled
fthere to create safeguards against fu-
ture wars?' Difficulties and RESPONSE
g bflities. some of them very urgent and
pressing which were presented by the
successful termination of the great
war must, of course, be shared by the
great nations of the world as comrades
& of the less powerful"
i Mr.. Wilson is approaching the great
responsibility In the right spirit and
this is shown by his reply to questions
as his plans for the immediate future.
To Learn of Problems.
= 1T will be my privilege, 1 hope in
: the near future, not only to confer
: with allied statesmen in France, but
! also to visit allied countries and there
. learn as much as l can by personal
contact with the general sentiments
relative to the chief problems involved.
My first wish, of course, is to visit the
American army. The soldiers were
1.-THE special object to my thoughts dur
4 ing the progress of hostilities, for it
= was they that We were obliged to sus-
Ttain and support in every possible way.
o. course, my heart has become
greatly involved in their fortunes.
want to see as many of them as
~can consistently with my plans.
"If do not have the opportunity to
2; visit the allied armies, 1 hope at least
Ito see something of our comrades in
arms in their own countries / am
. anxious to visit Italy, a country from
(which so many, of my fellow citizens
have come, and I am interested and
gratified to learn that there are in the
italian army so many men who have
spent at least part of their lives in the
United States.
81 Wants to. See Brussels.
'I shall look forward also with
fpeculiar interest and satisfaction tt
visiting Brussels. now happily de
J 1ivered from the hand of her enemie:
2 and restored to her own people and
king. In the United States we have
felt and tried to express very poignant
! sympathy with the people of Belgian
j. TO- the steadfast faith they have main
tanned turnout their terrible trial, a:
well as for the peoples of northern
nd Nrth TO xx,h N
= the burden of war has fallen so trag
Z icaIly"