Returning to Paris about the middle of March 1919, Wilson found the conference had abandoned the League of Nations idea and had set about a peace of indemnities. annexations and reprisals. For a month Wilson fought almost single-handed for a peace which he could all democratic. He won to the extent that France abandoned her demand fur a Rhine frontier and agreed to self-determina tion in Poland and other European sub merged nationalities; and the League of Na tions was made a part of the treaty. But the concessions greatly weakened the President, while the opposition to him on substantially imperialistic grounds gained constantly in the United States. Wilson returned with the Treaty and, calling Congress together, laid it before the Senate on 10 July 1919. Immediately the bitterest opposition was manifest. fought for his work at Paris. He recognized that the essentials of his whole career in the White House were under attack. He made a tour of the country on behalf of the adop tion of the Treaty and the League of Na tions. He spoke at Columbus. Ohio, at Saint Louis, at many other points in the Middle W est and on the Pacific Coast. Everywhere he urged
acceptance of the Treaty and at many places received extraordinary ovations. But he was taken ill at Wichita, Kans.. and was hurried home to Washington, where he was kept in bed for several months. The judgment of history upon his contribution to the progre., of "all men everywhere,' as the American ideal runs, cannot now be made up, although none may doubt that he will be counted among the greatest of American Presidents.
The sources of information about Wilson are many. Woodrow Wilson, 'Congressional Government' (1885), 'The New Freedom' (1913), and the volumes of his 'Addresses and Messages,' published from time to time by Harper's, form the chief sources for his ideas and recommendations. The aCongressional Record" and the newspapers of the day from 1913 to 1920 give his addresses to Congress and show how much of his work has passed into law. Consult also Hale, William Bayard, 'Woodrow Wilson: His Story' (1912); Har ris, H. W., 'Life of Woodrow Wilson' (1917); Low, A. Maurice, 'Woodrow Wilson: An In t‘rpretation' (1918) ; Robinson and West, 'The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson' (1917).