Woodrow Wilson Predicts the Revival of American Idealism
He sees an eventual return to the “spirit and the principles which characterized our people throughout the great war”.
President who led the nation to victory in World War I, then had the bitter disillusionments of seeing himself abandoned and the U.S. refuse to join the League of Nations.
Typed Letter Signed, Washington, April 8, 1922, to M. Sinclair Williams. “Allow me to thank you for your letter of...
President who led the nation to victory in World War I, then had the bitter disillusionments of seeing himself abandoned and the U.S. refuse to join the League of Nations.
Typed Letter Signed, Washington, April 8, 1922, to M. Sinclair Williams. “Allow me to thank you for your letter of April sixth. I greatly appreciate both its purpose and its generous spirit. I do not feel myself at liberty to act upon your generous suggestion and I could in no case deal with it through Senator David I. Walsh. I have found him a very weak vessel. I have taken the liberty therefore of placing your letter in the hands of Judge Cordell Hull, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and of asking him to look the matter up as I am sure he will in the most serious and helpful spirit. May I not say how cheering it is to me to have such evidence of public spirit as your letter affords. Personally I believe that the years ahead of us are going to afford us the cheer and the strength of an effectual revival of the spirit and the principles which characterized our people throughout the great war…” An exceptionally visionary and optimistic letter of the ill and lonely Wilson, and important in showing the essence of the man that still lay below the surface. In speaking of the ‘spirit and the principles’ of the American people, Wilson was referring to the internationalism and idealism that led America to fight a war to make the world safe for democracy. He was right, and though he did not live to see it, that spirit did return, and a generation of leaders he had inspired (like FDR) brought victory in World War II and established the United Nations. Cordell Hull later became Roosevelt’s Secretary of State.

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