ABSTRACT
Woodrow Wilson personally had rejected the logical French program because it made the League of Nations the last question to be considered by the Conference; and he wished the League of Nations to be established before the peace terms were discussed. The practical disadvantages of Wilson's plan of procedure were obvious. He explained his preference for this procedure to House on December 14, 1918, saying that he intended "making the League of Nations the centre of the whole programme and letting everything revolve around that. His stern cable at the time of the armistice negotiations had made it seem certain that when he reached Paris he would say to Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando: Gentlemen, I have come here to make peace on the basis of my Fourteen Points and on no other basis.
