The basic principle of the plan was that the strong should, as a matter of right recognized by treaty, possess a dominant voice in international councils.

Obviously the principle of the equality of nations was ignored or abandoned.

In the face of the repeated declarations of the Government of the United States in favor of the equality of independent states as to their rights in times of peace, this appeared to be a reversal of policy which it would be difficult, if not impossible, to explain in a satisfactory way.

Personally I could not subscribe to this principle which was so destructive of the American theory of the proper relations between nations.
It was manifest, when I read the President's plan, that there was no possible way to harmonize my ideas with it.

They were fundamentally different.