...groups of ambitious men," would thus be that of catalyst and integrator in a new international system - "a steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations." Entering the war would mean participating in the founding of a league in the postwar period. At the...

...worked out only 208 under cover and where no one has the right to ask questions . . . They are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists...full information concerning all the nation's affairs. (DM Smith, 1966, pp. 194ff). The Americans never seemed to understand that Wilson's declaration of...

...carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossihle where puhlic opinion commands and insists upon full information...nation's affairs. A steadfast concert for peace can never he maintained except hy a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could he trusted...

...said, Germany was the "natural foe to liberty"; if it remained so ruled, it would remain freedom's foe. "A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations." Consequently, in taking up the gage the German emperor had thrown down, the United States was assuming...

...German people, but with their military dictators who had brought war to Europe. 'A steadfast concert of peace can never be maintained except by a partnership...be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.'20 Wilson's claim was just the most emphatic version of a long tradition in American diplomacy...

...of April 2, 1917, he declared that, A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government...it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion. . . . Only free people can hold their purpose and their honor steady...

..."deception" and "aggression" of Germany were a function of despotic rule, and that such behavior was "happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists...upon full information concerning all the nation's affairs."52 In a manner that similarly echoed Washington's view that such information was "due to the...

...had in mind when I addressed the Senate on the twenty-second of January last." But now, he insisted, "a steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. . . . It must be a league of honour, a partnership of opinion." Wilson pledged that we shall fight...

...courts or behind the carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists...it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion. Intrigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles...

...nations had had a democratic form of government. And in his message of April 2, 1917, Wilson says : ' A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. Only free peoples can preserve their democracy. . . . Peace must be planted upon the tested foundations...