Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-19

privilege that I should be expected to : second this motion.'
 Premier Clemenceau responded as ] follows:
 Premier's Response You would not expect me tQ keep silence after what the two eminent statesmen. who have just spoken. have
 said. I cannot help expressing my great. my profound gratitude to the | ilustrOus president of the United ! States. to the prime minister of Great ] Britain and to Baron Sonnino. for the
 words l have just heard from their i lips
 Long ago. when ] was young. as | MT. Lloyd George has recalled to you when | was travelling in America and l in England. l always heard he l French reDroached for an excess Of courtesy. which sometimes went be- vond the truth As I listened to the American statesman and 10 the Eng | fish statesman. 1 wondered whether ! they had not caught in Paris our na- tional disease of courtesy. Neverthe- less. gentlemen. 1 must say that my election is due necessarily to the old | international tradition of courtesy to the country which has the honor to re | ceive the peace conference in it's
 capital.
 q wish also to say that this testi-
 mony of friendship, if they will allow | to me the word part Of MT. Wilson's and AIr. Lloyd Georges speeches have touched me deeply, because I see in them a new strength for all three of us to accomplish. with the co-Opera- | ton of the entire conference. the ardu- ous work which is entrusted to us. gather from fl new confidence in the : success of our efforts.
 President Wilson has special auth ority to say that this is the first time | in fact that the world has ever seen assembled together a delegation of all ! the civilized nations of the earth.
 Full Preparation "The greater the bloody catastrophe
 which has devastated and ruined one of the richest parts of France, the l greater and more splendid must be the 1 repaTation-nOt only the material reparation, the vulgar reparation, if dare speak so, which is due all of us, but the higher and nobler reparation of the new institution which We will ] try to establish, in order that nations may at length escape from the fatal embrace of ruinOus wars, which de- stroy everything, heap up ruins, ter
 rorize the populace and prevent them from going freely about their work for | fear of enemies which may rise up | from one day to the next. Tt is a great. splendid and noble ambition which has come to all of us. | IL is desirable that success should | crown our efforts This cannot take place unless we all have firmly fixed and clearly determined ideas on what
 we wish to do.
 | "I said in the chamber a few days ago. and I wish to repeat here. that success is not possible unless we re main firmly united We have come ! together as friends; we must leave ! this hall as friends.
 That, gentlemen. is the first ! thought that comes to me. All else must be subordinated to the necessity ! of a closer and closer union among the nations who have taken part in this
 great war and to the necessity of re- mainng friends. For the league of na- tions is here. IL is yourself. II is for you to make it live and to make il live we must have it really in our hearts. Sacrifices Demanded
 As I told President Wilson a few days ago there is no sacrifice that I am not willing to make in order to ac- complish this. and l do not doubt that you all have the same sentiment We will make these sacrifices, but on the condition that we endeavOr impartial ly to conciliate interests apparently contradictory, on the higher plane of a greater, happier and better human ity.
 That, gentlemen, is what I had to say to you. l am touched beyond words at the evidence of good will and friendship which you show me.
 "The program of this conference has been laid down by President Wilson. It is TO longer the peace of q more or less vast territory, no longer the peace of continents; it is the peace of na- tions that is to be made. This program is sufficient in itself There is no superfluous word. Let us try to act swiftly and we'll"