To Churchill it was the Jekyll-and-Hyde contrast between Wilson as an international idealist and Wilson as a Democratic party boss that was the most striking, and most fatal. “His [Wilson’s] gaze,” Churchill wrote in The World Crisis, “was fixed with equal earnestness upon the destiny of mankind and the fortunes of his party candidates. Peace and goodwill among all nations abroad, but no truck with the Republican party at home. That was his ticket and that was his ruin, and the ruin of much else as well.”
