Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
President Guest of Honor at
Dinner by President
POincaire.
| GREATLY GRATIFIED
OVER VISITS RESULTS
Believes the World Better for the
Commingling of Leaders-Ger-
many's Fate Should Be
Lesson.

Paris, June 26, (By the A. PD-
President Poincare tonight gave
dinner to President Wilson and all the
delegates to the peace conference.
Mrs. Wilson accompanied the Presi-
dent.
Responding to an address made by
M Poincare, President Wilson SAID:
81 thank you most sincerely for
the words you have uttered. l can
not pretend, sir, that the prospect of
going home is very delightful to me,
but | can say with the greatest SIN
cerity that the prospect of leaving
France is very painful to me.
81 feel that my stay here, sir, has
enlightened both my heart and my
mind. 1t has enabled me personally
to see the evidence Of the suffering
and the sacrifices of France. 1t has
enabled me to come into personal
touch with the leaders of the French
people, and through the medium OF
intercourse with them, to understand
better, hope, than l understood be-
fore, the motives, the ambitions and
the principles which actuate this great
nation.
"Sometimes the work of the con-
ference has seemed to go very slowly
indeed. Sometimes it has seemed as
if there were unnecessary obstacles
to agreement. but as the weeks have
heightened, l have seemed to see
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.
Peoples Drawn Closer.
These six months have been six
months which have woven fibres of
connection between the hearts of our
people. And something more than
friendship and intimate sympathy has
come out of this intercourse.
Friendship is very good thing.
Intimacy is very enlightening
thing. But friendship may end with
sentiment. A new thing that has hap
pened is that we have translated our
common principles and our common
purposes into a common plan. When
we part we are not going to part with
a finished work. but with work one
| portion of which is finished, and the
other portion of which is only begun.
eve have finished the formulation
of peace, but we have begun plan Of
cooperation which believe will
broaden and strengthen as the years
go by SO that this grip OF the hand
that we have take nnow will not need
to be relaxed. We have been and
shall continue to be comrades. II it
be true that that has been accom-
plished, it is a very great thing.
GAS 20 away from these scenes,
l think / shall realize that l have
been present at one of the most vital
things that has happened in the his
tory of nations. Nations have formed
contracts with each other before, but
they have never formed partnerships.
They have associated themselves tenn
porarily, but they have never before
associated themselves permanentHi
"This wrong that was done in the
waging Of this war, was great
wrong. but it wakened the world to
great moral necessity of seeing that It
was necessary that men should band
them selvesItoge in order that such
| wrong should never be perpetrated
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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 vanquishec
and shamed if they attempt a dis.
honorable purpose. =,
"You can see, therefore, sir, witt
what deep feelings those of us WHIT
must now for little while turn ava!
from France, shall leave your shores
and though the ocean is as broad, !
will seem very narrow in the future
It will be easier to understand eac
other than it was before. and with tn
confident intercourse of cooperation
the understanding will be strengthen
ed into action and action will itsel
educate alike our purpose and GU
|, thought.
$50, sir, in saying good bye t
France, l am only saying sort Q
physical good bye: not spiritus
good bye. / shall retain in my hear
always the warm feelings which tn
generous treatment of this great pee
pie has ground in my heart. And
wish in my turn, sir, to propose
and increasing friendship OF the tw
YOU have proposed, the continue
; France, the closer and closer com
| nations, the safety and prosperity Q
} lmunion of free peoples, and tn
| strengthening Of every influenc
! which instructs the mind and tn
nurnose Of humanity,