ABSTRACT
Once Woodrow Wilson had decided to compromise to the bitter end rather than fight and had rescued his identification with the Saviour by convincing himself that the League of Nations would alter any unjust provisions he might allow in the treaty and preserve peace eternally, he made his compromises with astonishing celerity. On April 7, he had threatened to break up the Conference; one week later, April 14, the treaty was so far advanced that the German Government was invited to send delegates to Versailles to receive it. Wilson's speed in compromising was accelerated not only by his rationalization that the terms of the treaty were relatively unimportant so long as the League existed but also by his need to ask for amendments to the Covenant of the League. Wilson as striving to forget that he had made a peace which could not be reconciled with his Fourteen Points.
