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Woodrow Wilson set the cat among the pigeons by his immovable determination to lead the American delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris. Diplomatically, as a head of state he would outrank the heads of government leading the other national delegations; politically, his moral integrity and leadership were likely to be tarnished in the horse-trading negotiations; and constitutionally, there was the unprecedented problem of the US President being out of the country for a considerable span of time. On 5 December 1918 Wilson set sail for France on the George Washington.
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Heater, D. (1994). The Peace Conference and National Self-Determination. In: National Self-Determination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23600-8_4
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