The Times of Saturday last contained a report of an
interview which its Paris correspondent had had with President Wilson. The President contrasted the Congress of Vienna, an assembly of "bosses," with the coming Congress of Versailles, a meeting of the servants of the peoples. "There is no master-mind," he said, "who can settle the problems of to-day. If there is anybody who thinks that he knows what is in the mind of all the peoples, that man is a fool. We've all got to put our heads together and pool everything we've got for the lottnefit of the ideals which are common to The great purpose of the Congress, in the President's view, was to create a safeguard against future wars." The President paid a special tribute to " the strong, silent, and watchful support of the British Navy," and to the very happy coutredeshin existing between the British and American Navies. It was essential, he said, to the
future peace of the world that there should be" the frankest possible co-operation and the most generous understanding between the two English-speaking Democracies." He added, in significant words, that America fully understood "the special international questions which arise from the fact of your peculiar position as an Island Empire."
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