41.) Germany sought a peace based on the Fourteen Points.
42.) The United States' main contributions to the war effort had been foodstuffs, munitions, credits, oil for this first mechanized war, and manpower. The Germans were demoralized to the point of surrender by the prospect of endless US troop reserves.
43.) No other man besides Wilson had ever occupied so dizzy a pinnacle as moral leader of the world. Yet, he began to make a series of tragic fumbles.
44.) Wilson went to Europe as a diminished leader because he had staked his reputation on a democratic victory in the congressional elections of 1918, which backfired on him with a narrow republican majority. Unlike his fellows at the table, he did not command a legislative majority back home.
45.) Wilson infuriated Republicans by going in person to Paris (no pervious president had traveled to Europe) and by snubbing the senate in assembling his peace delegation and neglecting to include a single Republican senator in his official party.
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