, 1919-01-02
IMMEDIATE PEACE WANTED BY
PEOPLE, NOT BY CONQUEST,
BUT BY AGREEMENT
WILSON TELLS LONDON
DECLARES BASIC PRINCIPLES
FOR CONCERT OF POWERS
ALREADY AGREED UPON.
w..t.rn N~ew.pap.r Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Misunderstanding Dec. % in the
historic Guildhall at a ceremonious
gathering of Great Britain's most dis
tinguished statesmen, President Will
son reaffirmed his principle that there
must no longer be a balance Of power
which might unsettle the peace of the
world, but that the future must pro-
luce a concert of power which would
preserve 1t.
The Presidents reception at the
Guildhall was SO spontaneous and
hearty that it carried an unmistake-
able note of friendship and admira-
ton. When he arose to speak there
was q prolonged outburst of handicap
ping and cheering and his talk was
frequently p~unctuated by applause. At
the conclusion of his address the audi
ence rose with n accord and cheered,
and it kept up the applause and cheer
ing as he passed out.
Some of the points that won espe-
cial applause were his tribute to the
armies OF the associated governments
and his declaration that people
throughout the world wanted peace
and wanted 1t immediately-not, how
ever, by conquest, but by agreement
of mind.
The distinguished government and
other officials received by the lord
mayor before the Presidents arrival
included Premier Lloyd George, Field
Marshal Haig, Foreign Secretary Bal
four, Admiral Sims, former Premier
Asquith, Andrew Bonar Law, chancel-
Tor of the e%xchequer. and the ambas-'
4adors of the principal allied govern
Nents.
After President Wilson's arrival all
were grouped on the dias, the lord
mayor in the center and President
Wilson on his right, next to the Duke
of Connaught. The royal artillery
band in the gallery played American
airs, ushering President Wilson in
with the "StariSpangled Banner."
In the course of his speech the
President declared the soldiers had
fought to do away with the old order
and establish a new one. The old or
der, he said, had for it's center the
unstable thing called the balance of
power, determined by competitive in
t~erests, Jealous watchfulness" and
IAN antagonism of interests"
The men who have fought the wal,
he said, had been men from free ma
tions who were determined that this
sort of thing should end now and for
ever"
The suggestion for a concert of
power to replace the balance OF
power, he remarked. was coming now
from every quarter and from every
sort of mind. The concert to come,
he declared, must not be a balance OF
power or one powerful group of ma
tons set off against another. but
"a single, overwhelming, powerful
group of nations which shall be the
trustees of the peace of the world"
81 am particularly happy that the
ground has been cleared and the
foundations laid" he continued, be
cause we have already accepted the
same body principles. Those princi-
pies are clearly and definitely enough
stated to make their application a mat
ter which should afford no fundamsn-
tai difficulty.
The minds of the leaders of the
British government, the President
SalQ, were moving diouB tue sdlhc
lines as his own and their thought
had been that the key to peace was
the guarantee of it and not the items
of it. The terms of 1t. he added, would
be worthless unless a concert of pow
er stood back of them. No such po-
tent union of purpose had ever been
seen in the world before, he said, as
that which now demanded a concert
of power to preserve the worlds
peace. Whereas 1t had been the
thought Of close students n AGA
demic men. he now found the prac-
ticaI minds of the world determined
to realize it.
"The peoples of the world want
peace and want 1t now. not merely
by the conquest Of arms. but by agree
ment of mind"
Such an achievement, the President
added. would be the finest enterprise
of humanity.