League of Nations
On January 28, 1918, the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of congress and delivered a speech which has now become known as the “Fourteen Points”. This speech was preceded by “Peace Without Victory”, delivered to the Senate on January 22, 1917 which laid the ground work for the “Fourteen Points”. The idealism expressed in them was widely acclaimed and gave Wilson a position of moral leadership among the Allied leaders. A political novice who had held only one public office before becoming president, Wilson possessed considerable political skill. He was a brilliant and effective public speaker, but he found it difficult to co-work well with other government officials, from whom he tolerated no disagreement. Woodrow Wilson was remembered by his friends and close associates as a warm, fun-loving man who energetically pursued his ideals. But the harsh years in the presidential office, a tragic illness, and the public's dissatisfaction with him following World War I transformed Wilson's image to that of a humorless crusader for a feeble League of Nations. It was Wilson’s clear intent to form a lasting peace, for this was the war to end all wars, “What we demand in th
As a direct result of point 14, the League of Nations was created. The creation of the League of Nations, even though being the most important outcome of the Fourteen Points peace agreement from the Woodrow Wilson's perspective, was not the only one reason for President Wilson to write the document. Obviously, the outcome cannot be the cause itself and can only partially define the purpose. Rather several other specific positions of the document fully serve as the clarifying elements to the purpose President Woodrow had in mind while writing his famous speech. These clarifying points came in the form of what we now know as the “Five Particulars.” The “Five Particulars” dealt with fairness; “impartial justice…between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just…”, “No special or separate interest of any single nation or any group of nations can be made the basis of any part of the settlement which is not consistent with the common interest of all”, “…no leagues or alliances or special covenants and understandings within the general and common family of the league of nations”, “…no special, selfish, economic combinations within the league…any form of economic boycott…”, “All international agreements and treaties…must be made known in their entirety to the rest of the world.” is war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for e
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