Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-21 | Page 1 | Satisfactory Solution of Peace Problems is Predicted by President

SATISFACTORY SOLUTION OF PEACE PROBLEMS IS PREDICTED BY PRESIDENT) Wilson Declares Conference Will Earn Gratitude of World for Most Critical and Necessary Service Ever Rendered. 1 - PARTS. Pec. 20. "I am confident that ' the big council of statesmen of the world will bo able to reach a just and reasonable solution of the i i problems that will be presented to 1 them, and thus earn the gratitude of the : , world for the most critical and necessary service which has ever been rendered 1 it." said President Wilson today in an ; interview referring to the approaching peace conference. 1 The interview was given to the corre-; corre-; spondent of the London Times. In it j the president is reported to have stated his views on the discussion of the freedom free-dom of the seas and to have contrasted the evils of the Vienna congress with a hopeful outlook for the Versailles congress. con-gress. Lord Northcliffe, editor of the London Times, has given the Associated Press a copy of the Interview, from which the following extracts have been made. Selfish Interest Moved Delegates. The congress of Vienna, the correspondent corre-spondent says President Wilson told him, was a congress of "bosses." The delegates dele-gates were concerned more with their own interests and the classes they represented rep-resented than the wishes of their peoples. "Versailles, as President Wilson said," the interviewer continues, "must be a meeting place of the servants of the peoples peo-ples represented by delegates, and he added, 'There is no master mind who can settle the problems of today. If there is anybody who thinks he knows what is in the mind of all peoples, that man is a fool. We have all got to put our heads together and pool everything we have got for the benefit of the ideals whieh are common to all.' "Asked whether he would visit the grand fleet, President Wilson replied that he was afraid he would not have time, adding that he fully realized that behind the great armies thero was the strong, silent and watchful support of the British Brit-ish navy in securing the communications of the allies. "He referred also to the very happy comradeship and co-operation between the British and American navies." The correspondent then adds: "President Wilson, in discussing the rblo of the British fleet in the maintenance main-tenance of what, at any rate during the war, had been the freedom of the seas "for the free people of the world, spoke witn a sincerity which no amount of writing can convey. Co-operation of Nations Needed, "His accents convinced me that he is a believer in the decency and honesty of the Anglo-Saxon race. He said: " Tt is essential for the future peace of the world that there should be the frankest co-operation and most generous understanding between the two English-speaking English-speaking democracies. Wo comprehend and appreciate, I believe, the grave problems which the war has brought to the British people, and fully understand the special international questions which arise from the fact of your peculiar position po-sition as an island empire.' " The correspondent declared that he left tho president "with the assurance ringing ring-ing In my ears that he desired to cooperate co-operate with the British and with all the allies, in securing, with their counsel, a new state of affairs throughout the world."