The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-27
NATIONS MADE
PARTNERS, SAYS
WILSON IN PARIS
At Farewell Dinner Given
by POincare He Sees Har-
mony by League.
OCEAN MADE NARROWER
Warning to All That Defeat
Will Follow Any Dishon-
Orable Act.
Bp the Associated Press.

PARIS, June 26.-President Poincare
gave a dinner tonight to President
Wilson and all the delegates to the
Peace Conference. Mrs. Wilson ac-
companied the President.
Responding to an address made by
NJ, Poincare. President Wilson said:
Il thank you most sincerely for the
words that you have uttered. 1 can
not 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.
"I have received a peculiarly gen.
erous 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
resent. And the people Of France know
how to give q welcome that makes a
mans heart glad. They have a spon-
taneity about them. a simplicity of
friendship. which is altogether de-
lightful.
Understands French Motives.
II feel that my stay here, sir, has en-
lightened both my heart and my mind
1t has enabled me personally to see the
evidsncs Of the suffering and the sacri-
fees Of France. II has enabled me to
come into personal touch with the leaders
of the French people. and through the
medium OF Intercourse with them to un-
derstand better, l hope, than l under
stood before the motives, the ambitions
and the principles which actuate this
great nation. 1t has. therefore. been to
me q 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 conference
Sometimes 1t has seemed as II there
were unnecessary obstacles to agree
ment. 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 knowl-
edge of each others mind which think
has come out of these daily conferences.
We have been constantly in the pres
ence OF each others minds and motives
and characters, and the comradeships
which are based upon that sort OF knowl-
edge are sure to be very much moro
Intelligent not only. but to breed a much
more intimate sympathy and compre-
hension than could otherwise be created.
Peoples More Closely Knit.
These six months have been six
months which have woven new fibres OF
connection between the hearts OF our
people. And something more than friend
ship and intimate sympathy has come
out OF this intercourse.
Friendship is a very good thing. In
timacy is very enlightening thing.
But friendship may end with sentiment
new thing that has happened is that
we have translated our common princi-
pies 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.
I'VE have finished the formulation Of
the peace, but we have begun a plan
OF cooperation which believe 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
tinue to be comrades. We shall con-
| tinue to be coworkers In tasks which,
because they are common, will weave
out of our sentiments a common con-
ception OF duty and common concep-
ton OF the rights OF men OF every race
and OF every cline. II II be true that
that has been accomplished, It Is a very
great thing.
AS / go away from those scenes I
think ! shall realize that / have been
present at one OF the most vital things
that has happened in the history OF ma
tions. Nations have formed contracts
with each other before, but they never
have formed partnerships; they have as
ISOLATED themselves temporarily, but they
have never before associated themselves
permanently.
The wrong that was done in the wag-
ing OF this war was great wrong. but
1t wakened the world TO a great moral
| necessity of seeing that IL was necessary
| that men Ahould band themselves to-
gether in order that such a wrong should
never be perpetrated again.
Merely to beat a 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 vanquished and shamed II
they attempt a dishonorable purpose.
You can see. therefore sir, with
what deep feelings those OF us who must
, now for little while turn away from
France shall leave your shores, and
| though the ocean is broad, II will seem
very narrow in the future. II will be
easier to understand each other than I,
ever was before. and with the coniiden,
| intercourse OF cooperation the under.
standing will be strengthened into action
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