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The Peace Negotiations

CHAPTER XVI
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Declaration as to the organization of a League of Nations.
"The President's obsession as to a League of Nations blinds him to everything else.

An immediate peace is nothing to him compared to the adoption of the Covenant.

The whole world wants peace.

The President wants his League.

I think that the world will have to wait." The eight subjects, above stated, were the ones which I called to the President's attention at the time he was leaving Paris for the United States and which he said he did not care to discuss.
The views that are expressed in the memorandum of March 30 are those that I have continued to hold.


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