... was taking a stronghold upon Europe, while the Great Depression proved to threaten the "nature and destiny of the Western civilization" (Jose Ortega y Gasset 2000, PG). Eric Hobsbawm, author of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, claims that such political insecurity "swept away all regimes from Vladivostok to the ... the president myriad opportunities to address American foreign policy, he was not as antiwar as he led everyone to believe. Upon his plate Wilson made it appear as though he had to deal with the constant threat of war and the most effective way in which...

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