Document 1: extract of an address to Congress given by
President Woodrow Wilson on January 8th 1918
XIV. A general association of nations must be
formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees
of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states
alike.
(Conclusion) In regard to these essential
rectifications of wrong and assertions of right we feel ourselves to be
intimate partners of all the governments and peoples associated together
against the Imperialists. We cannot be separated in interest or divided in
purpose. We stand together until the end.
For such arrangements and covenants we are
willing to fight and to continue to fight until they are achieved; but only
because we wish the right to prevail and desire a just and stable peace such as
can be secured only by removing the chief provocations to war, which this
programme does remove. We have no jealousy of German greatness, and there is
nothing in this programme that impairs it … We wish her only to accept a place
of equality among the peoples of the world, the new world in which we now live,
instead of a place of mastery.
Document 2: cartoon (1919) from the National Archives
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