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The Treaty of Versailles, which was a peace treaty that called for the end of WorldWar 1(between Germany and the Allies), was defeated in the Senate by an unknownalliance of two forces. The two forces were President Wilson's "all or nothing" attitudeand the strong opponents of the Treaty in the Senate. William Borah (Sen, Idaho), one of the "irreconcilables", brings out a clearweakness in the Covenant of the League of Nations in his speech to the Senate. Theweakness is that will any country really feel comfortable, or approve of, another country'sgovernment dealing with their domestic affairs and concerns, especially if they have anarmy to support whatever they decide. He also brings up a point that no one wouldapprove of a tribunal, with 41 other nations in it, to settle a problem that might arisebetween members of the nation because what one nation sees a vital, another nation maysee as wasteful, which might just lead to another World War. The League as he describesit is contradictorial in all that it is to accomplish ("force to destroy force, conflict toprevent conflict, militarism to destroy militarism, war to prevent war") and it can't worklike that because it has no authority to back up its ow
to aiding other victimized nations, ergo the U. is not in the League of Nations, in his article "TheLeague of Nations". Wilson's decisionwould prove to be fatal to his cause because the Senate majority belonged to theRepublicans, which meant that the Treaty would not probably pass without a lot of theirsupport. Either way they could never agree upon it inAmerica. He did not even consult the Republicanleadership in the Senate about the peace negotiations, which was also an insult to theRepublicans. Whenpopular public opinion goes, in most cases, so does the bill. Article X angered Congress because they wanted to reserve theirconstitutional right of declaring war to themselves. He so disliked Article X thathe made his own reservation to it, which provided that the U. In his Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keyes argues thatGermany should have to repay the United States and other Allies for the damages they caused to them during the war. politics at the time so they werenaturally against each other because of their different partisan roots. government to the other governments of theLeague and the U.
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