The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-27
President Calls League
Brotherhood To Protect
World Against Mischief

PARIS. June 27.-President Poin'
care last night gave a dinner t.
President Wilson and all the dele
gates to the peace conference. 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.
cannot 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.
have received a peculiarly
generous welcome here, and it
has been pleasing for me to feel
that that welcome was intended
not so much for myself as for the
people whom 1 represented. And
the people of France know how
to give a welcome that makes a
mans heart glad. They have a
spontaneity about them, a sim
plicity Of friendship, which is al
together delightful.
Understands Frances Motives.
1 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 inter
course with them to understand
better, l hope, than l understood
before, the motives, the ambitions
and the principles which acutate
this great nation. It has, there
fore, been TO me a lesson in the
roots of friendship in those things
which make the intercourse of
nations profitable and service
able for all the rest OF mankind.
Some times the work of the
conference has seemed to go very
slowly indeed. Some times il has
seemed as If there were unnece-
sary obstacles to agreement; but
as the weeks have heightened 1
have seemed to see the profit that
came out of that. Quick conclu-
sions would not have produced
that intimate knowledge of each
others mind which l think has
come out of these daily confer
enccs.
Real Work Just Begun.
We have been constantly in the
presence of each others minds
and motives and characters. and
the comradeships which are based
upon that sort of knowledge are
sure to be very much more intel
ligent not only, but to breed a
much more intimate sympathy
and comprehension than could
otherwise be created.
These six months have been
six months which have woven
new fibers of connection between
the hearts of our people. And
something more than friendship
and intimate sympathy has come
out of this intercourse.
Friendship is a very good thing.
Intimacy is a very cnlightening
thing. But friendship may end
with sentiment. A new thing that
has happened 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 I'm
ished work, but with a work one
portion OF which IS finished ana
the other portion Of which is only
begun.
Plan of Cooperation.
We have finished the formulation
of the peace. but we have begun
a plan Of cooperation which l be-
Iieve 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 con-
tinue to be comrades. We shall
continue to be coworkers 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. II IL be true that
that has been accomplished, it 10
q very great thing.
As l go away from these
scenes. I think ! shall realize