Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-01-04
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E1DdANUELs WELCOME.

> 00A<AGS O1IAS . "GA(ON4Es
Rome, Friday, Jan. 3.-Presi.
dent Wilson was the guest of
honor at an Official dinner given
at the Quirinal tonight. There
were only. two addresses, by King
Victor Emmanuel and by Mr..
Wilson. The king said:
"You, yourself, Mr.. President,
have become our welcome and
pleasing guest only today, but In
the conscience of our people your
personality already for q long
time has inscribed itself In an
inefYacable way. 1t Is that which
In itself gathers all the powers
which go to stimulate q viii bent,
on liberty and justice and gives
conception of the destinies OF hui
manity.
The enthusiastic salutatlons
which have accompanied your
passage through the streets of
Rome today are attestations of
the sentiments of admiration and
recognition that your own name
and labor and the name and
labor of the United States stir in
the Italian people. The prin-
cples in which you in magnifi-
cent synthesis have summed up
the ideal reasons of the war for
liberty find resonance in Italian,
hearts.
"The best traditions of Italian
culture, the liveliest currents of
0vpvs r>o f44rnO ho~n r>nv>.
stantly aimed at the same ideal
goal, toward the establishment of
the international peace for which
you have with tenacious faith
stood. Already before the Wis.,
sicitudes of war and the fratcr.
nifty of armies has established to-
days admirable communion OF
intentions and purposes between
our two countries, legi0ns Of our
workers had emigrated to your
great republic. They had knitted
America and Italy together with
strong cords of relationship and
these became reinforced by the
spiritual affinity between both
peoples who had q common faith
in the virtue of free political
government.
'sWhen Italy entered the war, a
breath, a precursor of the Amer
lean soul, penetrated into the
rank and file of our army
through the means of our work.
ers who returned to the father
land from America and brought
into Italy an echo of their Sec
ond PatriA. So, corresponding
ly, the Italian soul vibrated in
the hearts of our emigrants en-
rolled under your banners when
the American nation under your
guidance threw itself into the
fight with the common enemy.
''It WAS natural that your visit,
awaited with q most earnest de-
sire, should now give form and
expression almost tangible to this
! fervid agreement of spirits, to
this happy communion of inten-
tions and Of ideals, forming
themselves between the two peo-
pies, and which are employed in
q union always moro intimate
& and q cooperation always more
cordial in the face. of the grave
duties imposed by the common
victory. italy, having now gath
cred to her own bosom those
/, brothers so long sorrowing under
foreign oppression, and having
reconquered the confines which
alone can give her security and
true Independence. is preparing
herself to cooperate with you In
the most cordial manner to reach
the most practical means fol
civilized nations, for the purpose
of creating in the supreme form
, of q league Of nations the condi.
lions most fitted to safeguard and
protect each ones rights.
ssItaly and America entered
together into the war through &
rare act Of will; they were moved
by the purpose to concur with all