Just as the leaders of the German workmen and the younger Democrats caught at the theories of Guild Socialism, so now they are turning eagerly to a new idea, also introduced from England, of an international Soviet system-an organisation that will be really international because, instead of being based as is the wilsonian League on the nationalism of States, it will be based on the internationalism of trades.
"The New Germany"
George Young
Thus all Paris, as we saw, was aware that the European chiefs, whose faith in wilsonian orthodoxy was still feeble at that time, were prepared to take advantage of the President's sojourn in Washington to speed up business in their own sense and to confront him on his return with accomplished facts.
"The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference"
Emile Joseph Dillon