“At Vienna again, they had believed in the doctrine of ‘compensations’ ... We believed in nationalism, we believed in the self determination of peoples. ‘Peoples and provinces’, so ran the four Principles of our Prophet [Woodrow Wilson], shall not be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were but chattels or pawns in the game ... “Nor was this all. We were journeying to Paris, not merely to liquidate the war, but to found a new order in Europe. We were preparing not peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission ...”
