ABSTRACT
Woodrow Wilson's progress to mental and physical collapse in the three months which separated his signature of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, from his breakdown of September 26, 1919, may be followed by the perusal of his public utterances. He presented the treaty to the Senate for ratification on July 10, 1919, and his address, considering his precarious physical and mental condition, was surprisingly reasonable. He soared away from the facts in certain passages, saying for example, "Convenient, indeed indispensable, as statesmen found the newly planned League of Nations to be for the execution of present plans of peace and reparation, they saw it in a new aspect before their work was finished. The fact is established that Wilson was informed of the existence of the secret treaties in 1917, when Balfour came to America, if not before.
