Whatever his faults as an international statesman, the American President was one of the great political prophets of our century, or of any century; his dream was as transcendent in its way as Lenin’s. Wilson envisaged the League as something fairly close to a real world government one of his “Five Particulars” concerning it goes so far as to forbid all alliances, or even economic combinations among its members — and no doubt he reasoned that its authority would be adequate to protect the legitimate interests of the new minorities that the peacemakers were so recklessly bringing into being.
His idea never worked.
