separated the League from a powerful organization to a weak and insufficient organization.
             The eventual backing out of the United States might have had the greatest impact upon the League. On January 8th 1918, The President of the United States of America, Woodrow Wilson, in his message on the conditions of Peace delivered at a Joint Session of the Two Houses of the American Congress, identifies the fourteen points intended to serve as the basis for world peace.
             "A general association of nations should be formed on the basis of covenants designed to create mutual guarantees of the political independence and territorial integrity of States, large and small equally."
             He presented the 14 points to congress with the intentions of making the world a better place safe for democracy. He felt that international co-operation would benefit the world. Although it was clear from the start that the U.S. did not want to ratify any part of the Treaty of Versailles. The congress's first objection to the League was due to article 10 of the treaty which stated, "The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve against external aggression the territorial
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