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Show ! f k mm mm, m, w mm 7 J& JZ? J& ' J& J& J& J& J& Fisht f or Balance of Power Must End, Says President MEEffllT onus IS .EAR U. S. Executive Tell Britons He Has Found European Leaders Are in Accord on Parleys y Associates' sr.... LONDON, Dec. 28. Speaking today in the historical Guild-hall, Guild-hall, at a ceremonioua gathering of Great Britain' moat di-tinguiahed di-tinguiahed atateararn, Preaident Wilson reaffirmed his prlnelpU that than must no longer b a balanoa of power which mlcht unsettle the peace of the world, but that the future jnuat produoe a eonosrt of power which would preserve It. The president's reception at the Guildhall wae so aponteneoue and hearty that It ' carried an unmistakable unmis-takable note of frienashlpaSnd admiration. ad-miration. When he arose to epeak there was a prolonaed outburet of bandclapplna and cheering and hie -ta4a waat frequently pnnrtnated by applause. At the conclusion of his address the audience rose with one accord and cheered, and It kept op the applause and cheerlna as he passed out. TRISUTE TO ARMIES. Tha preeldent was Kln a notable ovation on rlslne to begin his speech and aome of the points that won renewed re-newed applause were bis tribute to ths armies of the associated aovensansnts and bis declaration that people throughout through-out the world wanted peace and wanted It Immediately not, however, by conquest, but bj aareement of mind. 1 1 The distinguished government and other officials received by the lord mayor before the president's arrival included in-cluded Premier Lloyd Oeonre, Field Marshal Half, Foreign Secretary Balfour, Bal-four, Admiral 81ms, former Premier Asqufth, Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor of the exohequer, aad the ambassadors of the principal allied governments. After President Vrn son's arrival all were grouped oa the diss, the lord mayor In the renter and President Wilson Wil-son on his right next to the Duke of Connaught. The Royal artillery bend In the gallery played American alra, uahering President Wilson In with the Hter-Hnanrrtat Banner. FOR NEW ORDER. In tha coarse) of his speech, the president declared tha soldiers had fought to do away with tha old order and establish a new one. Tha old order, ha said, had for Its center the "unstable thing" called the halanca of power, determined by competitive Interest. In-terest. "Jealous watchfulness" and "in antagonism of Interests-" The men who have fought the war. he said, bad been "men from free nations, na-tions, who were determined that this sort of thins should end now ud forever." for-ever." CONCERT OF POWER. Tha suggestion for a concert of power pow-er to replete ethe balance of power, he remarked, was coming now from every quarter and from every sort of mind. Tha concert to come, he declared, must not be a balance of power or one powerful pow-erful group of nations set off a gain at another, but "a single, overwhelming, powerful group of nations which snail he the trustees of the pea ceo t tha world. The minds of the Veadrs of t.ie British Brit-ish government, the president sa jCoatmiied oa paa tA J AGREEMENT ON TERMS Contlnued from page 1.) were moving along the same lines as hi sown, and their thought had been that the key to peace was the guarantee guaran-tee of It and not tha Items of it. The Items of It, he added, would be worth- less tmieea ""ConcerTr power stiod hack of them. No such potent union ' of purpoea had ever been seen In the . world before, he aald, as that. which t now demanded a concert of power to ' preserve the world's peace. Wht-reag It had been the thought of close students and academic men. he . now found the practical minds of the world determined to get IL REACH AGREEMENT. 1 am particularly happy that the ground haa been cleared and the foundations foun-dations laid," he continued, "because we have already accepted the same - body principles. Those principles are clearly and definitely enough stated to make their application a tnstter whtch should afford no foundamentul "difficulty. 'The peoples of the world want peace and want It now. not merely by the conquest of arm-, but by agreement of mind." ftuch an achievement the president characterised as "this great, may I not say final, enterprise of humanity?" KEY TO SITUATION. There had ben just a hint thst the president's address would he the key to the conferences he has been holding hold-ing with British statesmen, and the sddrwss as It wss delivered today waa r, interpreted In American quarters aa confirming the previous Intimations that these conferences had been satisfactory sat-isfactory from the president's viewpoint view-point , At the outset of his address, Presl- dent Wllaon declared he did not fancy ; that tha welcome of Paris and Lon- I don to htm was purely personal, but I rather that the voices of the people i were expressing not only emotions of gratification that tha fighting had 1 I ceased, but also their conception that I : tha peace to be made must guaran- I tee that the war could not be re-; re-; pea ted. I "It now rests upon oher to see ' that those lives were not lost In vain. ; President Wilson added. ' The president concluded his address amid a great demonstration and then proceeded to the luncheon st ths mansion man-sion house with the lord insyor. The oldest observer In the Guildhall Guild-hall today declared no reception ever accorded any dignitary there approached ap-proached In spontanlety and volume that which greeted the president's appearance ap-pearance and the address which followed. fol-lowed. The procession from Hucklnghsm palace to ths Uulldhall was through a I crowd thnt r-hered ennt Inimtmty. |