Silesia and Czecho-Slovakia

Slavonia disposition

Slovakia disposition

Small nations See Equality.

Smuts, General and disarmament plan for mandates

Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes

Sonnino, Baron Sidney See Fiume

Sovereignty question in system of mandates

Spitzbergen disposition

Strategic influence on boundary lines

Straus, Oscar S. favors League as reported

Supreme War Council, American members added, 14; and Cecil plan; and
   Council of Ten.

Syria, protectorate. See also Near East.

Taft, William H., supports League as reported.

Transylvania, disposition,

Treaty of Peace. See Peace.

Treaty-making power, President’s responsibility, duties of negotiators,
   and affirmative guaranty,

Trieste, disposition; importance,

Turkey, dismemberment and mandates, See also Near East.

Ukraine, Wilson and; autonomy, and Ruthenians.

Unanimity, requirement in League.

Violation of the League, action concerning, in Wilson’s original draft,
   in Cecil plan; in Treaty,

War. See Arbitration; League of Nations; Prevention.

White, Henry, arrival in Paris; opposes affirmative guaranty; and
   Covenant as reported and later amendments; and proposed French
   alliance; and Shantung question. See also American programme;
   American Commission.

Wickersham, George W., supports League as reported.

Williams, E. T., and Shantung question,

Wilson, Woodrow, responsibility for foreign relations; duties of
   negotiators to, and opposition, presumption of self-assurance,
   conference on armistice terms; disregard of precedent; and need of
   defeat of enemy; and Commission of Inquiry; open-mindedness; and
   advice on personal conduct; positiveness and indecision; and election
   of 1918; prejudice against legal attitude; prefers written advice,
   arrives in Paris, reception abroad, on equality of nations, and
   separation of powers, denounces balance of power, and
   self-determination, conference of Jan. 10, contempt for Hague
   Tribunal, fidelity to convictions, return to United States, return to
   Paris, and mandates, and French alliance, and open rupture with
   Lansing, and team-work, decides for a definitive treaty only,
   rigidity of mind, secretive nature, and Fiume, Italian resentment and
   Shantung, and Bullitt affair, Treaty as abandonment of his
   principles, Fourteen Points, principles of peace (Feb. 1918), See
   also American programme; Commission on the League; Council of Four;
   Lansing; League; Peace; President as delegate; Secret diplomacy.

Withdrawal from League, provision in Treaty, through failure to approve
   amendments.