It is possible that this assertion may seem too emphatic to some who have opposed the plan for a League of Nations, which appears in the first articles of the Treaty of Versailles, but, if these opponents of the plan will go back to the time of which I am writing, and avoid the impressions made upon them by subsequent events, they will find, I believe, that even their own views have materially changed since December, 1918.

It is true that concrete plans had then been suggested, but so far as the public knew the President had not adopted any of them or formulated one of his own.

He had not then disclosed the provisions of his "Covenant." The mass of the people were only concerned with the general idea.

There was no well-defined opposition to that idea.

At least it was not vocal.
Even the defeat of the Democratic Party in the Congressional elections of November, 1918, could not be interpreted to be a repudiation of the formation of a world organization.