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A history of the United States . ouldconfine itself solely to the restoration of peace, and that theproposed League of Nations should be reserved for con-sideration at some time in the future. While his enemies in the Senate were busily organizing all the forces of opposition against him, the president was welcomed by the war-weary peoples of Europe The moral with demonstrations of genuine enthusiasm such as *®*^f.^^^^P . .01 Wilson had been the lot of few men in history to receive, acclaimedHe had during the past months been voicing the ^^ ^^^longings of the inarticulate masses for a peace Europethat would end war and establish justice as the rule of con-duct between the nations of the world, great and small alike. ()0G The New Nation No mortal man could have fulfilled the hopes and expec-tations that centered in Wilson when he landed on the shoresof France on December 13, 1918. He still held the moralleadership of the world, but the war was over, the Germanmenace ended, and national rivalries and jealousies were. Central Europe in 1919. beginning to reassert themselves even among those nationswho had so recently fought and bled side by side. Thischange was to be revealed when the Conference met. Therewas no sign of it in the plaudits of the multitudes who wel-comed the president in France, in England, and in Italy. America in Action 607 He returned on January 7, 1919, from Italy to Paris, where delegates to the Conference from all the countries which had been at war with Germany were gathering. The first session of the Peace Conference was held January 18. The main work of the Conference was carried on by a Supreme Council, constituted at this meeting and composed of the ranking delegates of the five great of the powers. Great Britain, France, the United States, P««<=® Con- fGr6nc6Italy, and Japan. The decisions which this Council arrived at, with the aid of the large groups of tech-nical advisers which accompanied the delegations of thegreat powers, were r