ion that he
either did not know that anything was wrong or did not care. On Jan. 19
Senator Chamberlain, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military
Affairs, declared that "the military establishment of the United States
has broken down; it has almost stopped functioning," and that there was
"inefficiency in every bureau and department of the Government." The
next day he introduced bills for a War Cabinet and a Director of
Munitions, which would practically have taken the military and
industrial conduct of the war out of the President's hands.

The President met the challenge boldly with the declaration that
Senator Chamberlain's statement was "an astonishing and unjustifiable
distortion of the truth," and must have been due to disloyalty to the
Administration. Chamberlain's reply, while admitting that he might have
overstated his case, was a proclamation of loyalty to his
Commander-in-Chief and an appeal for getting down to the business of
winning the war.

_The Fourteen Points_

_President Wilson's program for the world's peace was outlined in
the Fourteen Points, which constituted part of an address delivered
before Congress January 8, 1918, as follows:_

_No Private Understandings_

1 OPEN COVENANTS of peace, openly arrived at, after which there
shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but
diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

_Freedom of the Seas_

2 ABSOLUTE FREEDOM of navigation upon the seas outside territorial
waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed
in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of
international covenants.

_No Economic Barriers_

3 THE REMOVAL, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the
establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the
nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its
maintenance.

_Reduce National Armaments_

4 ADEQUATE GUARANTEES given and taken that national armaments will
be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.

_Colonial Claims_

5 A FREE, open minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all
colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle
that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests
of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the