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Show POINCARE IS TO J OFFER; PROOF H France to Show Wilson the jjjj Evidence of German Sys- j tematic Pillage. I PARIS, Dec. l'i In closing his ad- I dress to President Wilson today Presi- f dent Poincare said: iS "You, Mr. President, will be able to jjj measure with your own eyes the ex- li tent of the disasters and the French jfi government will mako known to you H the authentic documents in which the German general staff developed with astounding cynicism its program of i pillage and industrial annihilation.- I Your noble conscience will pronounce a verdict on these facts. "Should this guilt remain unpunish-j unpunish-j ed, could it be renewed, the most j splendid victories would be in vain. "Mr. President, Franco has struggled, strug-gled, has endured and has suffered during four long years; she has bled j at every vein; she has lost the best of her children; she mourns for her youths. She yearns, now, even as you J do, for a peace of justice and security, j "It was not that she might be ex- I posed once again to aggression that she submitted to such sacrifices. Nor was it in order that criminals should go unpunished, that they might lift their heads again to make ready for new crimes, that under your strong leadership America armed herself and crossed the ocean. "Faithful to the memory of LaFay-ctte LaFay-ctte and Rochambeau, she came to the aid of France because France herself. Hffl was faithful to her traditions. Our Hi common ideal has triumphed. ''Together wc have defended the vi- B tal principles of free nations. HI "Now we must build together such a peace as will forbid the deliberate and hypocritical renew of an organism a aming at conquest and oppression. "Peace must make amends for the H misery and sadness of yesterday, and it must be a guarantee, against the dangers of tomorrow. The assocfa-lion assocfa-lion which has been formed between the United States and the Allies, and which contains the seed of the per- manent institution of which you have spoken so eloquently, will find from this day forward a clear and profitable employment in the concerted search for equitable decisions which is the mutual support we need if we are to make our rights prevail'. "Whatever safeguards wd may erect for the future no one, alas, can assert as-sert that we shall forever spare to mankind tho horrors of new wars. Five years ago the progress of science and the state of civilization might have permitted the hope that no government, govern-ment, however autocratic, would have succeeded in hurling armed nations upon Belgium and Serbia. "Without lending ourselves to the illusion that posterity will bo forever more safe from these colleptive follies, we must introduce into tho peace we are going to build up all the conditions of justice and all the safeguards of civilization that we can place in it, , "To such a vast and magnificent task, Mr. President, you have chosen to come and apply yourself in concert. con-cert. France offers you her thanks. She knows that friendship of America. Ameri-ca. She knows your rectitude and ele-avtion ele-avtion of spirit. It is In tho fullest confidence that she Is ready to work with you. "I lift my glass, Mr. President, in your honor and in honor of Mrs. Wilson. Wil-son. I drink to the prosperity of the republic of the United States, our great friend of yesterday and of other days, of tomorrow and of all time." |