ABSTRACT
In spite of the triumph of Woodrow Wilson's unconscious identification with the Saviour of the World, he was exceedingly nervous and exhausted. For five weeks in Paris he had worked harder than he had ever worked in his life. Throughout his administration Admiral Grayson had protected him from exhaustion, but in Paris the defenses behind which he rested broke down. When he boarded the George Washington he was close to physical and nervous collapse; and his mental condition may be judged from his self-deception in the matter of the preliminary treaty. On February 24, 1919, Wilson landed in Boston and at once attacked his domestic opponents in an emotional address —an attempt to make America "drunk with this spirit of self-sacrifice." Many portions of his speech show that he had lost touch with reality. He spoke of the American soldiers as "fighting in dream," and estimated the power of his words thus: "I have had this sweet revenge.
