why did woodrow wilson want to establish an organization such as the league of nations?
Wilson himself Included in his Fourteen Points in January 1918 a league of nations to insure peace and justice. British foreign secretary, Lord Balfour, argued that, as a condition of durable peace, behind international law, and behind all treaty arrangements for preventing or limiting hostilities, some form of international sanction should be devised which would give pause to the hardiest aggressor.