PRESIDENT WILSON WINS NOBEL PRIZE
Oslo, Norway (JFK+50) On December 10, 1920, President Woodrow Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The President's Fourteen Points* proposal for peace after World War I influenced the final decision of the Nobel Committee.
The Nobel Prize website says that because the United States Senate refused to approve membership in the League of Nations and the President was disappointed with peace negotiations in Paris, there was some opposition on the Committee to Wilson getting the award. In the end, a majority approved.
According to history.com, Wilson's Fourteen Points...
"laid the foundation for the peace...at the end of World War I (and) formed the basis of American foreign policy in the 20th and early 21st centuries."
*Fourteen Points were introduced by WW in his speech to Congress on Jan 8 1918. They included freedom of the seas, free trade & self-determination. The 14th point called for a "general association of nations (to offer) mutual guarantees of political independence...to great & small nations alike."
SOURCES
"The Fourteen Points: Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles," The National World War Museum and Memorial, www.theworldwar.org/
"Woodrow Wilson awarded Nobel Peace Prize," December 10, 1920, This Day In History, www.history.com/
"Woodrow Wilson Facts," Nobel Prize, www.nobelprize.org/
