Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-21
SUPREME COUNCIL
CLOSING ITS WORK
Conference of Ambassadors
Which Will Enforce Peace
Pact Convenes Monday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 21.-The supreme
council decided this morning that the
new conference of ambassadors would
be inaugurated on Monday, January
rs. This conference, taking up part
of the work of the supreme council,
which virtually concluded its labors
the task of insuring the carrying out
of the treaty of Versailles and the
discussion of current routine matters
connected with peace affairs. The
great questions of international pol
icy. however, will be reserved for set
heads of the allied governments will
sit.
N. Clemenceau presided over to6ay's
session of the council for q short time.
giving way to Premier Millerand. The
others in ATTENDANCE were Earl Cur
zon, the British foreign secretary;
Signor de Martina, for Italy; Baron
Matsui. for Japan. and Ambassador
Wallace. for the United States.
PARIS. January 2O.-Befere the
George asked that the following
statement be entered upon the min
utes of the council:
Conscious OF the inestimable serv-
ices which NJ. Georges Clemenceau,
president during more than year of
the peace conference. has rendered
the cause of peace, and grateful to
him, as we are. for the dignity. i'm
partiality and wisdom with which he
has conducted our deliberations we,
his colleagues, desire to express to
him our una1terable esteem as well
as our hope that in the calm of his
retirement he may live long enough
to see his Incompatible work bear
fruit for the glory Of France and the
renewal of the prosperity of the
world"
Hugh c. Wallace, the American am
hassador. who followed Mr. Lloyd
George, said:
Mr.. President: It is a deep regret
for me not to have been able to be
present longer in these deliberations
and to profit by your great wisdom
and your Incompatible good temper.
l have learned to know you, and that
is to say, to love you, and President
Wilson already had told me how deep
ly he is attached to you. 1 want to
express to you the sentiment we feel
for you and to wish you a long and
happy life"
Reply OF M. Clemenceau,
NJ. Clemenceau, in thanking the
council for it's expressions Of esteem.
said
Tf Great Britain. the United States.
Italy and Japan remain united there
ceeds all those guarantees which can
he put on paper. If one day these
nations are separated I dare not think
of the misfortunes which may re-
suit.
1--WE arrived here somewhat dis
concerted by the gravity of the prob
lens set and the difficulty of set
Ting them. When fighting the enemy
all necessarily were in agreement.
each rjoyfully giving his life for his
country But 1t is not necessarily
| the same when one meets to calcu-
late and realize the fruits of victory
and to settle each ones share We
! have, however. tried to accomplish
| that difficult task, and it may be
! truly said that I have never pre-
sided over your meetings. They were
not presided over. We exchanged
| thoughts, strictly speaking We never
| experienced difficulties In our dis
! cussions and the president never had
| to exercise his powers. We have been
! friends charged with a great duty
| to make peace, to prolong the state
, of peace first of all between our
| selves. while increasing the chances
! of peace for humanity
After shaking hands warmly with
{ all present. NJ. Clemenceau. with
! tears in his eyes. left forever the
! foreign minister's private office. where
/ daily for more than year he has
! toiled for the greatness OF his coun-
/ try and the peace of the world.