My objections to it have been sufficiently discussed in the preceding pages.

It would be superfluous to repeat them.

The innumerable published articles and the endless debates on the Covenant have brought out its good features as well as its defects.

Unfortunately for the opponents and defenders of the document alike some of the objections urged have been flagrantly unjustifiable and based on false premises and misstatements of fact and of law, which seem to show political motives and not infrequently personal animosity toward Mr.Wilson.

The exaggerated statements and unfair arguments of some of the Senators, larded, as they often were, with caustic sarcasm and vindictive personalities, did much to prevent an honest and useful discussion of the merits and demerits of the Covenant.
The effect upon President Wilson of this campaign against him personally--and it seems to me that it would have had the same effect upon any man of spirit--was to arouse his indignation.