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" Those who violated the law were imprisoned or fined, and "...even mainstream publications were censored or banned," if they had the audacity to challenge the government on the war effort.

Why was Wilson, in the end, defeated by democracy? Wilson tried very hard to get his League of Nations proposal passed, and toured the country from coast to coast in a train when he was desperately ill to drum up support. And Wilson worked so hard in Paris at the 1919 peace conference that a reporter covering his movements, Ray Stannard Baker (whose article is quoted in www.woodrowwilson.org, the presidential library), wrote: "Once, as is well-known, he broke down entirely and was ill in bed for several days at a very critical moment in the peace conference. Yet such was his power of self-discipline...that he recuperated swiftly, and each morning seemed as full of energy and as eager to go on with the fight as ever."

In the end, he wanted the League of Nations to be created so, rather than punish Germany, there would be a new international mechanism to handle future disagreements before they broke into hostilities.He collapsed near the end of his nationwide tour to try to get support for the League of Nations and suffered a massive stroke. So, he was the "gospel of democracy" and also, ironically, he was defeated by democracy. The U.S. Senate voted "no" on the League of Nations twice, and Wilson himself was an invalid the last seventeen months of his second term.

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Miller Center of Public Affairs / University of Virginia. "American President: An Online

Reference Resource: Woodrow Wilson (1865-1924)." Retrieved Nov. 25, 2007, at http://millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/wilson.

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