While chief consideration will be given to the differences regarding the League and the Covenant, the record would be incomplete if the other subjects were omitted.

In fact nearly all of these matters of difference are more or less interwoven and have a collateral, if not a direct, bearing upon one another.

They all contributed in affecting the attitude of President Wilson toward the advice that I felt it my duty to volunteer, an attitude which was increasingly impatient of unsolicited criticism and suggestion and which resulted at last in the correspondence of February, 1920, that ended with the acceptance of my resignation as Secretary of State.
The review of these subjects will be, so far as it is possible, treated in chronological order, because, as the matters of difference increased in number, they gave emphasis to the divergence of judgment which existed between the President and myself.

The effect was cumulative, and tended not only to widen the breach, but to make less and less possible a restoration of our former relations.

It was my personal desire to support the President's views concerning the negotiations at Paris, but, when in order to do so it became necessary to deny a settled conviction and to suppress a conception of the true principle or the wise policy to be followed, I could not do it and feel that to give support under such conditions accorded with true loyalty to the President of the United States.
It was in this spirit that my advice was given and my suggestions were made, though in doing so I believed it justifiable to conform as far as it was possible to the expressed views of Mr.Wilson, or to what seemed to be his views, concerning less important matters and to concentrate on those which seemed vital.