Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
WILSON AT DINNER
BIDS FAREWELL TO
FRENCH REPUBLIC
Says Visit to Europe Has AHoped Him to See the Damage
Wrought By War; Defends SlotD Policy of Allies in
Arriping at Terms of Peace With Central PoWers

motives and characters, and the
comradesships which are based upon
that sort of knowledge are sure to
be very much more intelligent not
only but to breed u much more inti-
mate sympathy and comprehension
than could otherwise be created.
These six months have been six
months which have woven new
fibers of connection between the
more than friendship and intimate
sympathy has come out of this inter-
cousse.
Says Plan Will Broaden
Friendship is very good thing.
Intimacy is very eRlightening thing.
But friendship may end with senti-
ment. A new thing that has hap
pened is that we have translated our
common principles and our common
purposes into common plan. When
we part, :.e are not going to part
with a finished work, but with a
work one portion of which is finished
and the other portion of which is
only begun.
I'VE have finished the formation
of the peace, but we have begun a
plan for cooperation which l be-
lieve will broaden and strengthen as
the years go by so that this grip OF
the hand that we have taken now
will need to be relaxed. We have
been and shall continue to be COM
rades. We shall continue to be CO.
workers in tasks which, because they
are common, will weave out of our
sentiments a common conception OF
duty and a common conception of
the rights of men of every race and
Of every cline. If it bt true that
hn Mi c a6 a
very great thing.
"As I go away from these scenes,
I think 1 shall realize that I have
been present at one of the most vital
things that has happened in the his
tory of the nations. Nations have
formed contracts with each other
before, but they never have formed
partnerships They have associated
themselves temporarily, but they
have never before associated them
selves permanently.
"The 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 a wrong should never be
perpetrated 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 a dis
honorable purpose.
"You can see, therefore, sir, with
what deep feelings thoae of us who
must now for a little while turn
away from France, shall leave your
shores; and though the ocean is
broad it will seem very narrow in
the future. 1t will be easier to ur-
derstand each other than it ever
was before, and with the confident
intercourse of cooperation, the un-
derstanding will be strengthened into
action, and action will itself educate
alike our purpose and our thought,
80, sir, in saying good-by to
France I'm only saying a sort OF
physical good-by; not a spiritual
good-by. 1 shall retain in my heart
always the warm feelings which the
generous treatment of this great peo-
pie has generated in my heart. And
wish in my turn, sir, to propose,
as you have proposed, the continued
and increasing friendship of the two
nations. the safety and prosperity or
France, the closer and closer COM
munion of free peoples, and the
strengthening of every influence
which instructs the mind and the
purpose of humanity"