If we wait till they are accepted, it will be four or five months before peace is signed, and I fear to say how much longer it will take to have it ratified.
"It is perhaps foolish to prophesy, but I will take the chance.

Two months from now we will still be haggling over the League of Nations and an exasperated world will be cursing us for not having made peace.

I hope that I am a false prophet, but I fear my prophecy will come true.

We are riding a hobby, and riding to a fall." By the time the President returned from his triumphal journey to Rome I had completed the articles upon which I had been working; at least they were in form for discussion.

At a conference at the Hotel Crillon between President Wilson and the American Commissioners on January 7, I handed to him the draft articles saying that they were supplemental to my letter of December 23.