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oughout everything. because we felt that in a way this conference did entrust into us the expression of one of its highest and most important purposes, to see to it that the concord of the world in the future with regard to the objects of justice should not be subject to doubt or uncertainty。 that its interest was rather their extermination than their development。39。威爾遜(thomas woodrow wilson,1856年12月28日1924年2月3日),美國第28任總統(tǒng)。伍德羅。 that the cooperation of the great body of nations should be assured in the maintenance of peace upon terms of honor and of international obligations. the pulsion of that task was constantly upon us, and at no point was there shown the slightest desire to do anything but suggest the best means to acplish that great object. there is very great significance, therefore, in the fact that the result was reached unanimously. fourteen nations were represented, among them all of those powers which for convenience we have called the great powers, and among the rest a representation of the greatest variety of circumstances and interests. so that i think we are justified in saying that the significance of the result, therefore, has the deepest of all meanings, the union of wills in a mon purpose, a union of wills which cannot be resisted and which, i dare say, no nation will run the risk of attempting to resist. now, as to the character of the document. while it has consumed some time to read this document, i think you will see at once that it is very simple, and in nothing so simple as in the structure which it suggests for a league of nations, a body of delegates, an executive council, and a permanent secretariat. when it came to the question of determining the character of the representation in the body of delegates, we were all aware of a feeling which is current throughout the world. inasmuch as i am stating it in the presence of the official representatives of the various governments here present, including myself, i may say that there is a universal feeling that the world cannot rest satisfied with merely official guid