President Wilson celebrated his sixty-second birthday at Buckingham Palace last
Saturday, receiving first thecongrattda. tione of the King; and those-of a number of deputationsat. the American Embassy. In the afternoon he visited-the Guikithall, being warmly greeted by groat crowds on both journeys through the streets. In his speech, at the Guildhall Mr. Wilson said that when the war began the thought of a League of Nations was said to be academic, but now we found the practical leading minds of the world determined to get it. " Do you wonder, therefore, that, in common with those who represent you; I am eager to get to business and write the sentences down ? . . . The people of the world want peace, and they want it now ; not merely by conquest of arms, but by agreement of mind. This incom- parably great object has-brought me overseas."
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