Not the Volleyball in CastAway… The 28th POTUS was once ruminating about how colonialism would actually be handled post War (hint, still working on it). Which is why, when I recently came across this document when perusing the archives of the wonderful WWI Museum in Kansas City i was stunned, but maybe I shouldn’t have been. President Wilson, while attending the Paris Peace Conference, wondered what would happen if … well, you can read it.
Point is, this has been going on a long time. It was part of the reason I wrote A Line in the Sand with Mr. Jones.
Enjoy
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The President at the Peace Conference, Paris, February 14, 1919
Mr. Chairman:
I pause to point out that a misconception might arise in connection with the one of the sentences I have just read, –“If any party shall refuse so to comply, the Council shall propose the measures necessary to give effect to the recommendation. “*
case in point, a purely hypothetical case,–is this: Suppose that there in the possession of a particular power a piece of territory or some other substantial thing in dispute to which it is claimed that it is not entitled. Suppose that the matter is submitted to the Executive Council for a recommendation as to the settlement of the dispute, diplomacy having failed; and suppose…
