ABSTRACT
Thomas Woodrow Wilson had come to believe that the aims of the Allies were as selfish as the aims of the Central Powers, and he felt that he was about to be forced to become the tool of the Allies. On February 3, 1917, Wilson announced to the Congress that he had decided to break diplomatic relations with Germany but emphasized the pacific character of the policy he hoped to pursue. Germany had forced him into the situation which his identification with Christ found intolerable. The distinction he invariably made between the German Government and the German people was first made in his own unconscious. Wilson's apparent hypocrisy was nearly always self-deception. He had an enormous ability to ignore facts and an enormous belief in words. Wilson so long as his father lived had never made any important decision without asking his father's advice.
