I have no idea how I missed this, since it was a great influence on the course of the War, and of the peace negotiations leading to the Treaty of Versailles (mostly by being ignored by theWestern Allies).
Woodrow Wilson in an address to Congress, outlines his plan for a e, negotiated settlement to the First World War, on the basis of his now-famous Fourteen Points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points
Reaction by war-mongers in the US is generally along the lines of:
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."
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.”
Which seems to have been one of the major influences keeping the US out of the League of Nations (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations), which, in turn, was a major factor in the failure of that body to prevent the Second World War.