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Show NEW ERA FDR WORLD PREDICTION TASK AT PARIS TO ORGANIZE FRIENDSHIP OF EARTH AND CHECK INTRIGUES. Italian People Warmly Welcome President Wilson, and Tender Him Ovation After Address in The Chamber of Deputies. Rome. In parliament house a joint reception was given President Wilson by the members of the senate and I lie chamber of deputies, on January 3. The function was an impressive one. The large and distinguished gathering gave the president an ovation. During the president's speech, he was constantly interrupted by outbursts out-bursts of applause, and w hen he ended he was accorded an ovation which lasted until he passed through the exit of the building. Outside the throng's In the street took up the demonstration demonstra-tion which continued until the doors of the Qulrinal closed behind Mr. Wilson. Wil-son. The weather was warmer aud more balmy than the presidential party had experienced in France and England, and there was a feeling of relief among the party. The president met with really the first touch of sustained sunshine he had seen since coining to Europe, and he made the remark during dur-ing the day that the weather reminded him of that at home. During the day King Victor Emmanuel Emman-uel presented General Diaz to President Presi-dent Wilson, who complimented the Italian commander iu chief oh the magnificent achievements of his army. The president .expressed regret that he would be unable to visit the Italian battlefrout, owing to lack of time and the necessity of returning to Paris as soon as possible for the work of the oence conference. During the course of the president's address, he declared that: "There is only one thing that holds nations together, if you exclude force, and that is friendship aud good-will. Therefore, our task at Paris is to organize or-ganize the friendship of the world to see to it that all the moral forces that make for right and justice and liberty are united and are given a vital organization to which the peoples of the world will readily and gladly respond. re-spond. "In other words, our task is no less colossal than this : To set up a new international in-ternational psychology ; to have a new real atmosphere. ' I am happy to say that in my dealings with the distinguished dis-tinguished gentlemen who lead your nation and those who lead France and England, I feel that atmosphere gathering, gath-ering, that desire to do justice, that desire to establish friendliness, that desire to make peace rest upon right ; and, with this common purpose, no obstacles ob-stacles need be formidable. "We know that there cannot be another an-other balance of power. That has been tried and found wanting, for the best of all reasons, that it does not stay balanced inside itself. "Therefore, there must be something substituted for the balance of power, and I am happy to find everywhere in the air of these great nations the conception con-ception that that thing must he a thoroughly thor-oughly united league of nations. "What men once considered theoretical theoreti-cal and idealistic turns out to be practical prac-tical and necessary. We stand at the opening of a new age in which a new statesmanship will, I am confident, lift mankind to new levels of endeavor and achievement." |