WOODROW WILSON AND ELIHU ROOT
"In foreign affairs we have been guided by principles clearly conceived, and consistently lived up to. Perhaps they have not been fully comprehended because they have hitherto governed international affairs only in theory, but not in practice."
Acceptance speech on renomination, September 2, 1916
"An international breach of the peace is a matter which concerns every member of the Community of Nations."
Letter to Colonel House, August 16, 1918
WHEN the European War, as men were to go on calling it for another three years, broke out in August, 1914, European statesmen must have realized that the old European diplomatic system