(Name (School (Course (Date )Woodrow Wilson ‘s Fourteen Points : A (rejected ) path to peace On the 8th of January 1918 , then United States President Woodrow Wilson declared his plan for peace after the aftermath of the First World War (U .S . News and World Report . The outline of the report was prepared by Colonel Edward M . House , a long time confidante of Wilson (U .S . News .House ‘s group , collectively known as “The Inquiry , was tasked in assimilating and evaluating both the Allied nations ‘ position and that of American policy that were to crop up in the peace summit with the other nations (U .S . News . In the speech , Wilson delved into what he believed as the prime triggers of the world conflagration (U .S . News . Wilson called for a decrease in the arms of countries , ending clandestine agreements and adjudication of the colonial issues among the nations , and an “open seas ‘ policy (U .S . News . But his plans were meet with heavy resistance , sometimes outright hostility (Michael Streich . In his response to the Wilson proposals , French President Georges Clemenceau became theological in his resistance (Streich . He averred that even if God did give the Ten Commandments , they were rejected by man , and the Fourteen Points were likely to meet the same fate (Streich . The interests of the Allies confirmed the rejection that would befall the proposal . The Allies rejected the proposal in that they were more interested in regaining what they had lost to Germany during the war (U…