The President, as I now see it, should have insisted on everything being brought before the Plenary Conference.

He would then have had the confidence and support of all the smaller nations because they would have looked up to him as their champion and guide.

They would have followed him.
"The result of the present method has been to destroy their faith and arouse their resentment.

They look upon the President as in favor of a world ruled by Five Great Powers, an international despotism of the strong, in which the little nations are merely rubber-stamps.
"The President has undoubtedly found himself in a most difficult position.

He has put himself on a level with politicians experienced in intrigue, whom he will find a pretty difficult lot.