New-York tribune., 1919-06-27
Wilson Bids
France Adieu
At State Feast
Ocean, Though Broad, Will
Seem Narrow in Future,
President Tells Nation
at Banquet by Poincare

PARIS, June 26 (By The Associated
Press ).-Preside Poincare tonight
gave dinner to President Wilson and
all the delegates to the peace confer
ence. Mrs. Wilson accompanied the
President. Responding to AN address
made by NJ. Poincare, President Wilson
said:
~ thank you most sincerely for the
words that you have uttered. l cannot
pretend, sir, that the prospect of going
home is not very delightful to me, but
| can say with the greatest sincerity
that the prospect of leaving France is
very painful to me.
81 have received a peculiarly gener-
Gus 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 | rep
resented. And the people of France
know how to give . welcome that
makes & mans heart glad. They have
a spontaneity about them, a simplicity
of friendship, which is altogethr de-
lightful.
Has Grown to Understand France
81 feel that my stay here, sir, has
enlightened both my heart and my
mind. 1t has enabled me personally to
the sacrifices of France 1t has ena-
bed 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 / understood before, the motives
the ambitions and the principles which
actuate this great nation. 1t has,
therefore, been to me lesson in the
roots of friendship in those things
which make the intercourse of nations
profitable and serviceable for all the
rest of mankind.
Sometimes the work of the confer
ence has seemed to go very slowly in
deed. Sometimes it has seemed as if
there were unnecessary obstacles to
agreement, but as the weeks have
lengthened | have seemed to see the
Profit that cumc out of that. Quick
conclusions would not have produced
that intimate knowledge of each others
minds which | think has come out of
these daily conferences.
Breeds Intimate Sympathy
1--WE have been constantly in the
presence of each others minds and
motives and characters, and the COM
radeships which are based upon that
sort of knowledge are sure to be very
much more intelligent not only but to
breed much more intimate sympathy
and comprehension than could other
wise be created.
These 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 symapthy has
come out of this intercourse.
"trlendshlp is a very good thing.
Intimacy is a very enlightening thing.
But friendship may end with senti-
ment. A new thing that has happened
is that we have translated our com
mon principles and our common pur-
poses into a common plan. When we
part We are not going to part with a
finished work, but with work one por-
ton of which is finished and the other
portion of which is only begun.
Comradeship to Continue
we have finished the formulation
OF the peace, but We have begun a
plan OF cooperation which, l believe,
VIII broaden and strengthen as the
years go by, so that this grip of the
hand that we have taken now will
never need t. be relaxed. We have
been and shall continue to be COM
rades. We shall continue to be CO.
workers in tasks which, because they
arc common, will! weave out of our
sentiments common conception of
uuty and a common conception of the
rights OF men of every race and of
every cline. If it be true that that
| ~ Continual m, rnos os,.