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Show , . . I t I ! PRESIDE!!! SA S LONDON, Dec. 28. King George called at President If Wilson's apartments at 10 o'clock this morning and -will bring 1 him many happy returns of the day. It was President Wil- I son's birthday his sixty-second. j PARIS, Dec. 28. President Wilson's tribute to Belgium ?' to include a visit to Brussels as the guest of King Albert, will J probably be deferred to the end of January, it developed today. LONDON, Dec. 28. Speaking- today in the historic Guild hall p at a ceremonious gathering" of Great Britain's most distinguished '; statesmen, President Wilson reaffirmed Ins principle that there must i no longer be a balance of power which might unsettle the peace o ! the world, but that the future must produce a concert of power which ; would preserve it. : The president's reception at the Guild hall was so spontaneous ' and hearty that it carried an unmistakable note of friendship and admiration. ad-miration. When he arose to speak there was a prolonged outburst I of handcla.pp.ing anrlcjierjngandiiis. talk, was frequently .-.punctuat-'-, "eaby applaxrs'e.. tLKejconclusfon of tiis address the audieuce rose I with one accord and cheered and it kept up the applauso and cheer- ing as he pasased out. I The president was given a notable ovation on rising to begin his ' speech and some of the points that won renewed applause were hia tribute to the armies of the associated governments and his declaration declara-tion that people throughout the world wanted peace and wanted it t' immediately not, however, by conquest, but by agreement of mind. The distinguished government and other officials received by ' the lord mayor before the president's arrival included Premier Lloyd George, Field Marshal Haig, Foreign Secretary Balfour, Admiral Sims, former Premier Asquith, Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor of the exchequer and the ambassadors of the principal allied governments. govern-ments. After President Wilson's arrival all were grouped on the dais, the lord mayor in the center and President Wilson on his right next If io the Duke of Connaught. The Royal artillery band in the gallery played American airs, V ushering President Wilson in with "The Star-Spangled Banner." ! In the course of his speech the president declared the soldiers had fought to do away with the old order and establish a new one. The old order, he said had for its center "the unstable thing," called the balance of power, determined by competitive interests, "jealous ; watchfulness," and "an antagonism of interests." 'I The men who have fought the war, he said, had been "men from I free nations who were determined that this sort of thing should end now and forever." The suggestion for a concert of power to replace the balance of pow-L pow-L cr, he remarked, was coming now from 1 ' every quarter and from every sort of 'ji mind. The concert to conic, he de-!i de-!i dared, must not be a balance of pow-" pow-" er or one powerful group of nations ;l set off against another, but "a single, :j overwhelming, powerful group of na-j na-j tions which shall be the trustees of the A peace of the world." j. The minds of the leaders of the Bri-' Bri-' tish government, the president said, i were moving along the same" lines ao his own, and their thought had been ;j that the key to peace was the guar-!, guar-!, antec of it and not the items of it. The ' items of it, he added, would be worth -less unless a concert of pc.ver stood i back of them. No such potent union of purpose I"! had ever been sen in the world before, I he said, as that which now demanded j a concert of power to preserve the fj4r W0rld'3 peace. Whereas it had been the thought of I :: close students and academic men, he I f, now found the practical minds of the 5 world determined to get it. ,f "I am particularly happy that the ' ground has been cleared and the foundations foun-dations laid," he continued, "because we have already accepted the same ' body principles. Those principles are 8;' clearly and definitely enough stated to ; make their application a matter which afford no fundamental difficulty. '; "The peoples of the world want j peace and want It now, not merely by the conquest of arms, but by agreement agree-ment of mind." Such an achievement, the president I! added, would be the finest enterprise of humanity. There had beon just a hint that the i President's address would bo the. key ; to the conferences he had been hold- ing with British statesmen and the : address as It was delivered today was interpreted in American quarters as confirming the previous intimations lhat these conferences had been sat-I sat-I factory from the president's vlew-1 vlew-1 Point. .1 At the outset of his address. Pres-fjj Pres-fjj Went Wilson declared he. did not fan- r I cy that the welcome of- Paris and London to him was purely personal, but rather that the voices of tho peo-! peo-! pie were expressing not only emotions of gratification that tho fighting had ceased, but also their conception that .the principle to be made must be guaranteed guar-anteed that the war could not be repeated. re-peated. "It now rests upon others to see that those lives were lost in vain." the president added. The president concluded his address amid a great demonstration and then proceeed to the1 luncheon at the Mansion Man-sion house with the lord-mayor. Th06c present in the Guild hall today to-day declared no reception over recorded re-corded any dignitary' approached In spontanlety and volume that which greeted tho president's appearance and the address which followed. The procession from Buckingham palace to the Guild hall was through a crowd that cheered continuously. LONDON. Dec. 28 Guests at the luncheon given to President Wilson by the lord-mayor today follow: Duko of Connaught, Princess Patricia Pat-ricia of Connaught, Premier and Mrs. David Lloyd George, the Earl and Countess of Reading, Admiral and Mrs. David licatty, Lord and Lady Curzon, former Premier and Mrs. H. H. Asquith, As-quith, David It. Francis, Mr. and Mrs. John V. Davis, Lord Herschell, Field Marshal and Mrs. Douglas Haig, Sir Charles Gust, Sir Robert Borden, pre-mlor pre-mlor of Canada, Premier and Mrs. William Morris Hughes of Australia, Louis Both, premier of the Union of South Africa; Archbishop of Canterbury, Can-terbury, Bishop of London. Viscount Mllnor, Lord Chancellor Finlay, Andrew An-drew Bonar Law, J. Auslon Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, George Nicoll Barnes, A. J. Balfour, Bal-four, Lord Weir, Lieutenant-Gcneral Jan Christian Smute, Viscount Varqu-har. Varqu-har. Sir Frederick Til. Smith, Winston Spencer Churchill, Viscount Sandhurst Sand-hurst and Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Vice Admiral Sir Roslyn Wymess, Viscount Vis-count James Bryce, Sir Albert H. Stanlev, Viscount Cave, Viscount As-tpr, As-tpr, SiV-Goorgc and Lady Rldell,-Lord Burnham, General Sir Henry Wilson, General Sir William R. Robertson, General John Cowan. Sir Charles Fielding, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Laugh-lln. Laugh-lln. Vice Admiral W. S. Sims, Major Lionel Rothschild, Sir Thomas Lipton, Marquis of Salisbury. Marquis of Crowe, Dr. Norman Moore, Sir George Perry, Andrew Fisher, former premie pre-mie of Australia; W. P. Schreiner, representative of the Union of South Africa; Lord Rothermcre. Adrian Pollock, Pol-lock, city chamberlain; Sir J. Bell, city clerk; Roland Prothero, Earl of Crawford, Sir Joseph Paton Maclay. Herbert A. L. Fisher, Earl of Chesterfield, Chester-field, Sir .1. White Todd, the chief rabbi of London; Sir W. A. M. Goode, Sir Jeremiah Coleman, Sir Eric Drum-mond, Drum-mond, Lord Mersey, the Maharajah of Bikancr; Lord Desborough, James William Lowther, the dean of St. Paul's; Consul -General and Mrs. Robert Rob-ert P. Sklnnor, Ian MacPhorson, Sir Campbell Worth, Richard Westncotl, Charled C. Bray and Hollis Stanley, American vico consul; Mr. and Mrs. J. Butler Wright; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ed-ward Bell; Colonel S. L. H. Slocura, Major-Goneral Biddle, Brigadier-General Harts, Colonel Henry W. Thornton, Thorn-ton, Rear Admiral Carey T. Grayson, twenty-eight city aldermen, editors of leading London newspapers, sheriffs sher-iffs and undershcriffe. i |