Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-27

the Diet provides that the first presl- dent shall be elected by the Diet. His 1 term of office will be six years. PoINcARE DIMES PRESIDENT
 WILSON AND PEACE DELEGATES
 Paris, June 26.-(By the A. P.)--! President, Poincare tonight gave 4 a dinner to President Wilson and all the delegates to the peace conference. Mrs. Wilson accompanied the presi- dent. t;.slI
 Responding to an address made by M. Poincare, President Wilson said.
 T thank you most sincerely for the words that you have uttered. can. not pretend, sir, that the prospect of going home is not very delightful to- me, but I can say with the greatest sincerity that the prospect of leaving France is very painful to me.
 "I have received a peculiarly gen. enrous welcome here, and it has been pleasing for me to feel that the well come was intended not so much for myself as for the people whom I rep. resented. And the people of France know how to give welcome that makes a mans heart glad. They have a spontaneity about them, a simplicity of friendship, which is altogether de- lightful.
 T 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 the 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- fn md hof- ter 1 hope, than I understood before
 the motives, the ambitions and the
 principles which actuate this gerat na :
 tion. It has, therefore been to me a
 lesson in the roots of friendship in
 those things which make the inter-
 course of nations profitable and ser viceable for all the rest of mankind. Sometimes the work of the con-
 ference has seemed to go very slowly
 indeed. Sometimes it has seemed as
 if there were unnecessary obstacles te agreement; but as the weeks have | heightened I have seemed to see the profit that came out of that. Quick con. l cluSionS would not have produced tha'
 intimate knowledge of each others mind which I think has come out O
 these daily conferences.
 We have been constantly in thu
 presence of each others minds ant ! motives and characters. and the com l radeshipS which are based upon tha sort of knowledge are sure to be yer,
 much more intelligent not only but t. breed much more intimate sympa f thy and comprehension than coul 1 otherwise be created. - , These six months have been si months which have woven new fibre l of connection between the parts of ou 3 people. And something more tha l friendship and intimate sympathy ha y1 come out of this intercourse.
 :. Friendship is very good thinf :. Intimacy is very enlightening thing : But friendship may end with senti
 ment. A new thing that has happene 3 is that we have translated our com I mon plan. When we part. we are nc going to part with a finished worl | but with work one portion of whic | is finished and the other portion which is on\ begun. .,<.
 We have finished the forrnulatio e U of the peace, but we. have. begun Il plan for cooperation which I beliey .e will broaden and strengthen as u 'A years go by so that this grip of tt hand we have taken now will need 1 - be relaxed. We have been and sha = continue to be comrades. We sha :, continue to be co-workers in task ,e which, because they are common, wi = weave out of our sentiments a con IS mon conception of duty and a con Ie.l mon conception of the rights of me Is of every race and of every clime 1t it be true that that has been accon 1t plished, it is a very great thing.
 " "As T. go away from these scene IS I think I shall realize that have be, It present at one of the most vital thin,
 that has happened in the history
 nations. Nations have formed col
 tracts with each other before but tn,
 never have formed partnerships. Tn c have associated themselves temper .a rily, but they have never before a r- sociated themselves permanently. "The wrong that was done in t a waging of this war was a gre r- wrong, but it awakened the world rv a great moral necessity of seeing tn a. it was necessary that men hould ba 25 themselves together in order that su ed a wrong should never be perpetrat a. again.
 ve Merely to beat a nation that " ,le wrong once is not enough. There mt K follow the warning to all other natio that would do like things that they ne Luiii WILL De NduC ulSneO anu Sldme0 ut they attempt a dishonorable purpo 'ts You can see, therefore, sir, W ri what deep feeling those of us W h. nut now for a little while turn aw ill from France, shall leave your shor, -e- and though the ocean is broad, ice will seem very narrow in the futu
 It will be easier to understand es
 other than it ever was before a
 with the confident intercourse of =N operation, the understanding will ,noi strengthened into action, and act 'f ,o will itself educate alike our purp itv and our thought.
 ,ce "So, sir, in saying goodbye Een France, Pm only saying a sort CTS physical goodbye; not spirit ms goodbye. I shall retain in my he
 always the warm feelings which vas generous treatment of this great D uce pie has generated in my heart. m- I wish in my turn, sir. to prop lad as you have proposed, the contin Po- and increasing friendship of the
 J., nations, the safety and prosperity ,al- France, the closer and closer c, the munion of free peoples, and ing strengthening of every influence wi
 instructs the mind and the purpos