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Show : WILSON TO ATTEND PEACE CONFERENCE PRESIDENT WILL HEAD THE AMERICAN DELEGATION TO THE VERSAILLES CONFERENCE. Presence. of Chief Executive in France Regarded as Necessary to Obviate Manifest Disadvantages of Discussion by Cable. Washington. President Woodruw Wilson will attend the opening sessions ses-sions of the peace conference. This was announced November IS. He -,vill go immediately after the convening of tile regular session of congress on December De-cember 2, This official statement was -issued Monday night at the Vv'ihte House. "The president expects to sail for France immediately after the opening of the regular session of congress, for the purpose of taking part in the discussion dis-cussion and settlement of the main features of the treaty of peace. It is not likely that it will be possible for liim to remain throughout the sessions of the formal peace conference, but his presence at the outset is necessary in order to obviate the manifest disadvantages disad-vantages of discussion b,v cable in determining de-termining the greater outlines of the final treaty, about which lie must necessarily be consulted. He will, of course, be accompanied by delegates who will sit as the representatives of the United States .throughout the conference. con-ference. "The names -of the delegates will be presently announced." How long the president wiP. remain abroad lie himself probably can not say now. The time for the convening of the peace conference lias not yet been announced, but the general belief here is that it can not be assembled before late in December at the earliest.. If -such proves the case, the president will be absent from the country for at least a month and probably longer. In visiting Europe the president will establish two precedents. He will he the first chief executive of flie United Statets .to participate in a peace conference con-ference for (he settling , of issues growing out of a war in which this country participated, and likewise he will be the first president to leave North America during his term of office. of-fice. In reaching liis decision to attend the peace conference, President Wilson Wil-son is understood to have been largely influenced by representations from Premiers Lloyd George of Great Britain Brit-ain and Clemenceau of France and other statesmen of the entente countries. |