Catholic ping!
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
An odd description. Wilson spent less than two years of his life teaching at a CT college, and was a Virginian by birth.
In Europe, World War One’s victors paved the way for Hitler and National Socialism, Stalin’s henchmen and East European Communism, Auschwitz and the gulag.
It is such a relief to see this evident fact stated so clearly.
He is wrong about nationalism. Where in Austro-Hungary especially did he see "desire for separateness"? Neither Germany nor Russia were nationalistic in that caricature sense: all the three losing powers were well-functioning multi-ethnic organisms. The initial reason for the war was the desire to deny Germany the leadership of Europe; part of the propaganda effort was to portray Germans as nationalistic man-eaters.