greatwar-1914:A cartoon from the Detroit News shows Woodrow Wilson attempting to arbitrate between E
greatwar-1914:A cartoon from the Detroit News shows Woodrow Wilson attempting to arbitrate between European nations, represented here as squabbling babies, with his Fourteen Points. To Americans, the Fourteen Points epitomized America’s mature and modern democracy compared to an anarchic, archaic Europe. Many Allied leaders, on the other hand, felt the Fourteen Points were another example of American arrogance and high-handedness in situations they did not understand. Upon hearing about the Fourteen Points, French Premier Clemenceau joked sarcastically that “The Good Lord had only ten.” -- source link