The time had arrived for putting into concrete form the general ideas that the President held, and Colonel House, whom some believed to be the real author of Mr.Wilson's conception of a world union, prepared, I am informed, the draft of a scheme of organization.

This draft was either sent or handed to the President and discussed with him.

To what extent it was amended or revised by Mr.Wilson I do not know, but in a modified form it became the typewritten draft of the Covenant which he took with him to Paris, where it underwent several changes.

In it was the guaranty of 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918, which, from the form in which it appeared, logically required the use of force to give it effect.
Previous to the departure of the American Commission for Paris, on December 4, 1918, the President did not consult me as to his plan for a League of Nations.

He did not show me a copy of the plan or even mention that one had been put into writing.