same thing. Mr. Wilson had expressed no opinion
of his own one way or the other and the obvious discovery was soon made
in London and Paris that the President had given to the Allies the
opportunity which they needed of officially differentiating their war
aims from those of the Germans. The German Government missed its
opportunity completely, and by their own answer to the President's note
the Allies succeeded in consolidating their moral positions, which was
something they had never previously been able to do in spite of all
their propaganda.

Informal peace negotiations were still in progress, although conducted
in secret and carefully screened from the knowledge of all peoples
involved in the conflict. On January 22, 1917, Mr. Wilson made his last
attempt at mediation in the "peace without victory" address to the
Senate in which he defined what he regarded as the fundamental
conditions of a permanent peace. Most of the basic principles of this
address were afterward incorporated into the Fourteen Points. Here
again Mr. Wilson was the victim of his own precision of language and of
the settled policy of his critics of reading into his public utterances
almost everything except what he actually said. He himself has insisted
on giving his own interpretation of "peace without victory," and this
interpretation was instantly rejected by the super-patriots who
regarded themselves as the sole custodians of all the issues of the war.

[Illustration: (C) _Underwood & Underwood_
1919: On the bridge of the _George Washington_ on
the return from the Peace Conference]

_The President and the Treaty_

_President Wilson sails for Europe, December 4, 1918._

_Visits to England, France and Italy, December-January, 1918-19._

_Peace Conference opened, January 18, 1919._

_League Covenant adopted, February 14, 1919._

_President Wilson's trip home, February 24-March 5, 1919._

_The treaty signed, June 28, 1919._

_Submission to the Senate, July 10, 1919._

_The President's speaking tour, September 3-26, 1919._

_Adoption of the Lodge reservations, November 16, 1919._

_Final defeat of the treaty in the Senate, March 20, 1920._

[Illustration: (C) _Edmonston_
February 15, 1921: Mr. Wilson's latest photograph--made
at a meeting of the Cabinet]

TWO PICTURES

By Joseph P. Tumulty

_Two pictures