The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-07-01
PRAISE FOR FRENCH
IN WILSON'S GOODBYE

While Prospect of Going Home is
Delightful it is Painful to Leave
France.
Paris, June &C., (By the Associ'
ated Press. president Poincare to.
night gave dinner to President Will
son and all the delegates to the peace
conference. Mrs. Wilson accompan-
led the president.
81 thank you most sincerely fol
; the words that you have uttered u
President Wilson in responding to an
address of M. Poincare said. 81 can
not pretend, sir, that the prospect OF
going home is not very delightful
,one but / can say with the greatest
sincerity that the prospect of leaving
France is very painful to me.
81 have received peculiarly gen.
erous welcome here, and it has been
pleasing for me to feel that that well
come was intended not so much for
myself as for the people whom I
represent.
81 feel that my stay here, sir, has
enlightened both my heart and my
mind. It has enabled me personally
to see the evidence Of the suffering
and sacrifices of France. It has en-
abled me to come into personal touch
with the leaders of the French people
and through the medium of inter-
course with them to understand bet
ter.
'.Sometimes the work of the con-
ference has seemed to go very slow
ly indeed. Sometimes it has seemed
as if there were unnecessary obsta-
cles to agreement; but as the weeks
have heightened I have seemed to see
j the profit that came out of that.
Quick conclusions would not have
produced that intimate knowledge of
each others mind which think has
come out of these daily conferences.
sThe six months have been six
months which have woven new fibres
of connection between the hearts of
our people. And something more
than friendship and intimate SYM
pathy has come out of this inter-
course.
eve have finished the formulation
Of the peace, but we have begun a
plan of cooperation which I believe
will broaden and strengthen. >. .
We shall continue to be coworkers in
tasks which, because they are COM
mon, will weave out of our senti-
ments common conception of duty
and a common conception of the
rights of men Of every race and Of
every cline. If it be true that that
has been accomplished, it is very
great thing.
/ GAS I go away from these scenes
I think / shall realize that I have
been present atone Of the most vital
things that has happened in the his
tory of nations- Nations have form
ed contracts with each other before,
but they never have formed partner
ships. They have associated, them
selves temporarily, but they have
never before associated themselves
permanently.
1 ssThe wrong that was. done in the
waging Of this war was a great
!; wrong, but it wakened the world to a
great moral necessity Of seeing that
it was. necessary that men should
band themselves together in order
that such wrong should never be
iperpetrated again.
Merely to beat nation that was
wrong once is not enough. There
must follow the warning to all other
nations that would do like things
that they in turn will be vanquished
and shamed if they attempt dis
honorable purpose.
'sYou can see, therefore, sir, with
what deep feelings those Of us who
must now for little while turn away
from France, shall leave your shores,
land though the ocean is broad it will
seem very narrow in the future. 1t
will be easier to understand each 9TH
er than it ever was before and with
the confident intercourse of coopera-
ttion the understanding will be
strengthened into action and actlon
will itself educate alike our purpose
and our thought.
$50, sir, in saying goodbye to