Hi /r/AskHistorians
I am writing an essay for school in which I want to critique each of Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points and explore why they were a bad basis to use for the peace process during the Paris peace conference. I want to hit on topics like how guilty the plan is of things like Euro-centrism and hypocrisy.
I was wondering if you guys might know good sources for me to use?
Currently I have a few sources but what I'd really like is some relevant quotes from politicians about their thoughts of the plan. I particularly liked this one from Theodore Roosevelt "If the League of Nations is built on a document as high-sounding and as meaningless as the speech in which Mr. Wilson laid down his fourteen points, it will simply add one more scrap to the diplomatic waste paper basket. Most of these fourteen points... would be interpreted... to mean anything or nothing."
Thanks so much for any help or opinions you guys can give me.
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