He also ignored the fact that what applies to the Czechs applies also to Ireland, that the Armenians as well as the Ukrainians desire to live their own national life, and that the coloured peoples of Africa and India are human beings with the same rights as white people.

He also failed to see that good will and the desire for justice are far from being sufficient in themselves to solve the problem of nationality.

Thus it was that under his patronage, and presumably on the basis of the Fourteen Points, the question of nationality was not solved but simply turned round where not actually left untouched.

If Germans and Magyars had hitherto been the dominating races they would now become the oppressed.

By the terms settled at Versailles they were to be handed over to states of other nationality.