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Show LONDON PAPERS C0MME1WILS0N London June 16 The London morning papers extend congratulations congratula-tions to President Wilson on the signing sign-ing of the Panama tolls exemption repeal re-peal bill The Mail says. "The president has done a fine thing in the right way We believe that the American peo pie will see in his act another prooi that they have the good fortune to be governed by a great man." The Daily Chronicle says- "It will increase President Wilson's personal ascendancy, remove what would be a deplorable source of diplomatic dip-lomatic difficult and restore to the great republic its full credit as a treaty-keeping nation." The Post, under the caption "The Large Thing." says: "It is a hard won triumph tor 1 resident res-ident Wilson who exposed himself to the charge ol seeking to purchase British friendship by the sacrifice of, American Interests it is then tore necessarv for Englishmen to pa n tribute of respect to the statesman who did not hesitate to risk his per, onai popularity and political prestige in doing what he believed to be right and just." |