The League might as well attempt to prevent the growth of plant life in a tropical jungle.

Wars will come sooner or later.
"It must be admitted in honesty that the League is an instrument of the mighty to check the normal growth of national power and national aspirations among those who have been rendered impotent by defeat.
Examine the Treaty and you will find peoples delivered against their wills into the hands of those whom they hate, while their economic resources are torn from them and given to others.

Resentment and bitterness, if not desperation, are bound to be the consequences of such provisions.

It may be years before these oppressed peoples are able to throw off the yoke, but as sure as day follows night the time will come when they will make the effort.
"This war was fought by the United States to destroy forever the conditions which produced it.

Those conditions have not been destroyed.