The President, disregarding the warnings of his soundest advisers, had insisted on personally heading the United States delegation. He had arrived in December and before the opening of the Conference had made a triumphant tour of the Allied capitals in the West. Everywhere enormous crowds had turned out to cheer him. His leadership of the Conference at first seemed unchallenged. In addition to the prestige of the Nobel Prize for Peace, awarded him in 1919, he had the strongest army in the world (because it was the only untired one), the food that starving Europe needed, the gold which could
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Misplaced faith in a one world government
