Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — WILSON GREETINGS ARE SENT TO ASSEMBLY [ARTICLE]

WILSON GREETINGS ARE SENT TO ASSEMBLY

Hopes and Believes Labors Will Be of Immense Value to World. Washington, D. C.» Nov. 17. —President Wilson in a message sent today to Paul Hymans, president of the league of nations assembly at Geneva, Switzerland,' extended his personal greetings to the assembly and expressed the .“hope and belief that their labors will be of immense value to the whole civilized world.” The message was an acknowledgment of one from President Hymans conveying an expression of sympathy voted President Wilson unanimously on the opening of the assembly of the league last Monday. Hymans Message to Wilson Mr. Hymans’s message said: “The assembly of the league of nations has by unanimous vote instructed me to send you its warmest greetings and to express its earnest wishes that you may speedily be restored to complete health. The assembly recognizes that you have done perhaps more than any other man to lay the foundations of the league. It feels confident that the present meetings will greatly advance the co operation between all nations which you have done so much to promote.” Reply of the President The reply of President Wilkbn was as follows: “The greeting so graciously sent me by the assembly of the league of nations through you has gratified me very deeply indeed. I am, indeed, proud to be considered to have played any part in promoting the concord of nations with the establishment of such an instrumentality as the league, to whose increasing usefulness and success I look forward with perfect confidence. Permit ine to extend my personal greetings to the assembly, if they will ,be gracious enough to receive them, together with an expression of my hope and belief that their labors will be of immense value to the whole civilized world.”