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The Covenant of the League of Nations, drafted by those same leaders at Paris in 1919, codified the inequality of races in international law.

At the post-World War I Paris Peace Conference, which Wilson supervised, the leaders of Britain, the United States, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada not only humiliated the many Asians and Africans demanding self-determination; they also jointly defeated an attempt by Japan, their wartime ally, to have a racial equality clause included in the Covenant of the League of Nations.

Cordially and sincerely yours Woodrow Wilson After the Plenary Session on April 28th and the adoption of the Covenant of the League of Nations, I felt that my duties in Paris were at an end.

As this visibly left his hearers puzzled, The Lords � Angrily debated a motion recommending that the Covenant of the League of Nations be so revised that Sanctions can never again be applied nor breach of a frontier be cited by the League as grounds for punishing the treaty-breaker.

This sin against the Covenant of the League of Nations was committed with the nation which had always been the Covenant's leading champion, France.