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Excerpt from Why President Wilson Failed
And when the President had been photographed with one trouser rolled up and the other down, and at the first sitting had laid no papers on the table, had said nothing, the excitement rose to fever pitch, for this man, it was said, not only knew how to be silent but could silence others; thus the days wore on.
Then the incredible happened. The President had no papers. He had come without a plan. The terrible scroll which, it was expected, would lay down the foundations of the League of Nations, was found to be non-existent. Almost a yell of delight went forth in Paris at the discovery that the President's armory was auto-suggestion, thatand nothing more. The British looked at the French, the French smiled appreciatingly. Gen eral Smuts was at once hauled in to frame the design of the Covenant. And the moment that the French grasped the President's weakness, they set to work to underpin him.
Talk did the trick, endless harangues, ceaseless argumentation; gesture, posture, gesticulation. The President had no plan to lean upon. After a few weeks his cardinal principle - open covenants openly arrived at - was lost, and the next step was to establish the old secret diplomacy, after which all was plain sailing.
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