It gives the impression that many clauses were accepted under the pressing necessity of ending the Commission's labors within a fixed time.

The document itself bears evidence of the haste with which it was prepared, and is almost conclusive proof in itself that it was adopted through personal influence rather than because of belief in the wisdom of all its provisions.
The Covenant of the League of Nations was intended to be the greatest international compact that had ever been written.

It was to be the _Maxima Charta_ of mankind securing to the nations their rights and liberties and uniting them for the preservation of universal peace.

To harmonize the conflicting views of the members of the Commission--and it was well known that they were conflicting--and to produce in eleven days a world charter, which would contain the elements of greatness or even of perpetuity, was on the face of it an undertaking impossible of accomplishment.

The document which was produced sufficiently establishes the truth of this assertion.
It required a dominant personality on the Commission to force through a detailed plan of a League in so short a time.