The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-07-04
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PRESIDENT WILSON.
Notable Function Attended BY
Leaders in Paris
FRENCH PRESIDENT WARNS
Disposition Shown To Violate Treaty
In Advance Makes It The Duty.
OF The Allies To Continue
Firmly United.

Paris.-The Allies duty to be vigil
liant in enforcing the peace terms with
Germany and a tribute to American
participation in the war. were among
subjects discussed by. President Poin-
care at the dinner which he and
Madame Poincare gave to President
and Mrs. Wilson and delegates to the
Peace Conference of the presi-
tial palace here. President Poin
cares speech preceded that of Presi
dent Wilson, who babe formal fare
well to France and the French people
and gave as his thought the belief
that the work of the Peace Conference
had created a friendship that would
make for an increasingly more in
innate sympathy between the peoples
and greater cooperation economically.
The dinner was given in the great
Sale des Fetes which was beauti-
fully decorated with flowers and the
flags of all the nations represented
by the guests. There were present
diplomats and delegates from all
countries attending the Peace Con-
ference, marshals of France, mem
bers of the cabinet, former premier,
presidents of the chamber of depu-
ties and the senate, former foreign
ministers and other prominent rep
resentatives of parliament and of the
judiciary
The dinner table was in the form
of horseshoe, with 230 covers laid.
President Wilson and President Poin-
care were seated at the head of the
table, with Mrs. Wilson at the hosts
left. and Nine. Poincare at President
Wilson's right. During the dinner the
Republican Guard Band played the
national airs of all the Allied Nations.
President Poincare, in giving a
toast to President Wilson, asked that
he be allowed, at the moment when
his guest was preparing to leave Eu-
rope, to render homage once more to
the high spirit of justice in which
President Wilson had prepared, with
other representatives of the Allied
and Associated Powers, this great la
borious peace, in which the justice
saved by our victory is going definitely
to inscribe it's will in favor of repara-
tions.'
After paying tribute to American
participation in the war, reviewing
the work of the Peace Conference and
outlining what still remains to be done,
President Poincare said:
"The treaties once signed must be
wholly applied, and persistence on our
accent will be no less indispensable
to their execution. The delegates of
the victorious countries have not met
during these long months and have not
convcked to Versailles the delegates OF
conquered Germany in order to retain
in their hands nothing but a simple
piece of paper.
I'VE want, all of us, as you do, Mr..
President, that this peace be not vain
words; that it be not a fugitive hope
and that it be not passing flash OF
joy appearing for one evening in
Europe. We want, as you
do, that the Society of Nations shall
become benefcent reality. We want,
as you do, that all the clauses to which
our enemies are going to subscribe be
loyalty observed.
"The disposition shown by violations
in advance of treaty that one is
going to undertake to respect makes
1t our duty to watch carefully to see
that criminal bands do not rekindle,
sooner or later, the confagration
which we have smothered
German ships sunk by their crews,
French flags burned and demonstra-
tions before the new Polish frontier
are not signs of repentance.
We must remain together, firmly
united, to gather the fruits of the vic
tory that we obtained together"
President Poincare concluded by
raising his glass and proposing in
honor of President and Mrs. Wilson a
toast to the immortality of Franco
American friendships and the in
destructible union of the Allied and
Associated Powers.