<P> The report was made as negotiation points, and later the Fourteen Points were accepted by France and Italy on November 1, 1918 . Britain later signed off on all of the points except the freedom of the seas . The United Kingdom also wanted Germany to make reparation payments for the war, and thought that that should be added to the Fourteen Points . The speech was delivered 10 months before the Armistice with Germany and became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . </P> <P> The speech was widely disseminated as an instrument of Allied propaganda and was translated into many languages for global dissemination . Copies were also dropped behind German lines, to encourage the Central Powers to surrender in the expectation of a just settlement . Indeed, in a note sent to Wilson by Prince Maximilian of Baden, the German imperial chancellor, in October 1918 requested an immediate armistice and peace negotiations on the basis of the Fourteen Points . </P> <P> Theodore Roosevelt, in an article "The League of Nations" published by Metropolitan Magazine (January 1919), warned: "If the League of Nations is built on a document as high - sounding and as meaningless as the speech in which Mr. Wilson laid down his fourteen points, it will simply add one more scrap to the diplomatic waste paper basket . Most of these fourteen points...would be interpreted...to mean anything or nothing ." </P> <P> Senator William Borah after 1918 wished "this treacherous and treasonable scheme" of the League of Nations to be "buried in hell" and promised that if he had his way it would be "20,000 leagues under the sea". </P>

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