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Show "CONFERENCE TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE," WILSON PARIS, Dec. 20. "I am confident that the big council of statesmen of the world will bo able to reach a just and reasonable solution of the problems prob-lems that will be presented to them and thus earn the gratitude of the world for the most critical and necessary nec-essary service which has ever been rendered It," said President Wilson today in an Interview, referring to the approaching peace conference. Th interview was given to the correspondent cor-respondent of the London Times, in It the president is reported to have stated his views on the discussion of the freedom of the seas and to have contrasted the evils of tho Vienna congress con-gress with a hopeful outlook for the Versailles congress. Lord Northcllffe, editor of the London Lon-don Times, has given the Associated Press a copy of the interview, from which the following extracts have been made. The congress of Vienna, the correspondent corres-pondent says President Wilson told him, was a "congress of bosses." The delegates were concerned more with their own Interests and the classes they represented than the wishes of their peoples. Versailles, as resident wnson said," the" interviewer continues, "must be a meeting place of the servants of the peoples represented by delegates j and he added, 'There is no master mind who can settle the problems of( today. If there Is anybody who thinks he knows what is In the mind of all peoples, that inan is a fool. We have j all got to put our heads together and pool everything we have got for the j benefit of the ideals which are common com-mon to all.' "Asked whether he would visit the! grand fleet, President Wilson replied j that he was afraid he would not have lime, adding that he fully realized that I behind the great armies there was ' the strong, -silent and watchful sup-1 port of the British navy In securing the communications of the allies. ; "He referred also to the very hap- ' py comradeship and co-operation between be-tween the British and American nav-iese." nav-iese." j The correspondent then adds: I "President Wilson, in discussing (he ' role of the British fleet in the maintenance main-tenance of what, at any rate during the war, had been the freedom of the, seas for the free people of the world, i spoke with a sincerity which no! amount of writing can convey. His! accents convinced me that he is a be - j llever in the decency and honesty of1 the Anglo-Saxon race. He said: I "'It is essential for the future peace of the world that there should be the! frankest co-operation and most gen-1 erous understanding between the two, English-speaking democracies. We' comprehend and appreciate, I believe, the grave problems which the war has i brought to the British people and fully ful-ly understand the special international! questions which arise from the fact 1 of your peculiar position as an island! empire.' " The correspondent declared that he, left tho president "with the assurance ringing in my ears that he desired to co-operate with the British and with all the allies, in securing with their counsel, a new state of affairs throughout the world." i oo : |