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Show WILSON SPEECH WMEIIDED III U.ilili "But Who Will Back Spirit of President's Policy?" Is Asked. l-ONDON'. Pec. 4 President Wilson's Wil-son's address to the American con res Is cordially commented upon by this morning's newspapers, which couple their commend at Inn with the reiteration reitera-tion of sentiments of hearty satisfaction satisfac-tion that he Is to attend the peace conference. con-ference. They declare the president will find the entente statesmen thor- j oiiKhly In concurrence with his ideej- j :am and devotion to International Jus- j lice There Is manifest a strain of snx-i-t in the editorials, although from -different iwK-n various u iterances with regard to reconciluiK the president's presi-dent's principles as ernbialied In his fourteen points with the aspirations of the allies. The Atomic I'ost insists upon the importance of the exact relation of the fourteen ioinis to the peace settlement hemic understood. The newspaper ihinks the point were accepted too hHNt.ly by the allied governments. It rvlK'i, howver. upon the president's definition of them as an .outline of, the basis of peace and regards them as "a services bie instrument with which to beicin the work of securing peace." The IXiily News asks anxiously for evidences of the acceptance of the spirit of the fourteen points, the letter, of which was accepted with one exception excep-tion by the able. "In all the world. It Inquires, "who I are the statesmen who are backing, not the letter, but the spirit of J'resl- dent Vilon's polley? The situation Is full of menace, if It la to be redeemed, it muM be by the peoples of every country." . |