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Show HOLDS PRELIMINARY SESSION TO SERIES OF MEETINGS ABOARD (By a Staff Correspondent of Universal Service.) ABOARD THE 17. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. (By Wireless to Universal Service) President Wilson conferred at considerable length this afternoon af-ternoon with Secretary of State Lansing and Henry White, the Republican member mem-ber of the American peace delegation. The session was preliminary to a series of general conferences which will begin tomorrow and in which Ambassadors Jusserand of France and Count dl Cellere of Italy will participate. The American peace delegation is certain cer-tain to present a united front for a league of nations and general naval disarmament. dis-armament. President Wilson read with the deepest deep-est interest William Howard 'Taft's speech before the LotoB club in New York, the text of which was received aboard ship by radio. The president made no comment, but he is understood to regard it as significant with reference refer-ence to the Republican attitude at Washington. Wash-ington. The weather is balmy today and the sea smooth. In the morning the president presi-dent attended a religious ceremony. Prior to the conference with Messrs. Lansing and White, he took a brief promenade prom-enade on deck. Ex-President Taft. in a speech at the Lotos club, New Y'ork, Friday night, said he believed "the Btars In their courses are revolving to make a league of nations inevitable." He Baid he had observed that "gentlemen at Washington" Washing-ton" sit up and take notice when an issue becomes live and acute. The issue of the league of nations, he added, had now reached that stage. He asserted the argument against "entangling alliances" had become Illogical and obsolete. |