...perforce yield to American pressure and accept the American peace programme: England and France, he wrote, have not the same views with regard to peace that...is over we can force them to our way of thinking. 1 If President Wilson regarded the secret treaties as of small ultimate consequence, it is not surprising...

...anil the Tageblatt, particularly if Northcliffe and Tardieu are to be made counselors in the matter. England and France have not the same views with regard...will, among other things, be financially in our hands : But we cannot force them now, and any attempt to speak for them or to our common mind would bring...

...war, but he was quite happy to use any weapon to hand. As he wrote to Colonel House on July 21, 1917, "England and France have not the same views with regard...will, among other things, be financially in our hands. . . ,"37 The American Treasury had two major tasks before it: it had to fund the American government's...

...emphasised this dependence. By July 1917, Wilson could write: 'England and France have not the same view with regard to peace that we have by any means. When...they will, among other things, be financially in our hands.'25 This power was to be applied with as much force as Wilson's own conviction would allow. When...

...prevail. And just in case the Allies were not open to moral suasion, there was always American power: "When the war is over we can force them to our way...will, among other things, be financially in our hands" (quoted in Wimer, 1982:162). Wilson never had to employ such crude pressures. His status as the incarnation...

...went to war not to preserve the balance-of-power system but to destroy it. He told House in July 1917, "When the war is over we can force them to our way of thinking, because by that time they [the Allies] will among other things be financially in our hands."82 Wilson's "new diplomacy" and internationalism...

...leverage on Britain and France. In July 1917 he wrote to House: 'England and France have not the same view with regard to peace that we have by any means. When...they will, among other things, be financially in our hands.'20 In fact, things were not as straightforward as that. The build-up to the crisis in Anglo-American...

...argument with pressure. Shortly after America entered the war in April 1917, he wrote to Colonel House: "When the war is over we can force them to our way...they will, among other things, be financially in our hands."8 For the time being, several of the Allies lingered over their responses to Wilson's idea....

...the Allied governments. Even after we entered the war, he remained suspicious of the Allied leaders. "England and France have not the same views with regard to peace that we have by any means," he told Colonel House.26 The President had his own liberal internationalist ideas about the peace to...

...not share Sims's confidence that there would be a common interest once the war was over. Wilson said, "England and France have not the same views with regard to peace that we have by any means." The United States thus had to reserve its power for its own political goals.27 Daniels and Benson,...