President Wilson was such a personality.

By adopting the scheme of an oligarchy of the Great Powers he silenced the dangerous opposition of the French and British members of the Commission who willingly passed over minor defects in the plan provided this Concert of Powers, this Quintuple Alliance, was incorporated in the Covenant.

And for the same reason it may be assumed the Japanese and Italians found the President's plan acceptable.

Mr.
Wilson won a great personal triumph, but he did so by surrendering the fundamental principle of the equality of nations.

In his eagerness to "make the world safe for democracy" he abandoned international democracy and became the advocate of international autocracy.
It is not my purpose to analyze the provisions of the Covenant which was submitted to the Conference on the Preliminaries of Peace on February 14, 1919.