But no one asks or expects anything more than an equality of rights." In view of this sound declaration of principle it seemed hardly possible that the President, after careful consideration of the consequences of his plan of a guaranty requiring force to make it practical, would not perceive the fundamental error of creating a primacy of the Great Powers.
It was in order to prevent, if possible, the United States from becoming sponsor for an undemocratic principle that I determined to lay my partial plan of organization before the President at the earliest moment that I believed it would receive consideration.
To my letter of December 23 with its enclosed memoranda I never received a reply or even an acknowledgment.

It is true that the day following its delivery the President went to Chaumont to spend Christmas at the headquarters of General Pershing and that almost immediately thereafter he visited London and two or three days after his return to Paris he set out for Rome.

It is possible that Mr.Wilson in the midst of these crowded days had no time to digest or even to read my letter and its enclosed memoranda.

It is possible that he was unable or unwilling to form an opinion as to their merits without time for meditation.

I do not wish to be unjustly critical or to blame the President for a neglect which was the result of circumstance rather than of intention.
At the time I assumed that his failure to mention my letter in any way was because his visits to royalty exacted from him so much of his time that there was no opportunity to give the matter consideration.