That night, he collapsed form physical and nervous exhaustion, and several days later, a stroke paralyzed half of his body. Slide 36 Lodge opposes the treaty Lodge now came up with fourteen to the Treaty of Versailles, which “reservations” sought to safeguard American sovereignty. Congress was especially concerned with Article X, which morally bound the U.S. to aid any member of the League of Nations that was victimized by aggression, for Congress wanted to preserve its war-declaring power. Wilson hated Lodge, and with though he was willing to accept similar Democratic reservations and changes, he would not do so from Lodge, and thus, he ordered his Democratic supporters to vote against the treaty with the Lodge reservations attached. On November 19, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was defeated by a vote of 55 to 39. Defeat Through Deadlock About four-fifths of the senators actually didn’t mind the treaty, but unless the Senate approved the pact with the Lodge reservations tacked on, it would fail completely. Brought up for a vote again, on March 19, 1920, the treaty failed again, due in part to Wilson’s telling of Democrats to vote against the treaty…again. Wilson’s feud with Lodge, U.S. isolationism, tradition, and disillusionment all contributed to the failure of the treaty, but Wilson must share the blame as well, since he stubbornly went for or nothing,” and received nothing. “all
That night, he collapsed form physical and nervous exhaustion, and several days later, a stroke paralyzed half of his body. Slide 36 Lodge opposes the treaty Lodge now came up with fourteen “reservations” to the Treaty of Versailles, which sought to safeguard American sovereignty. Congress was especially concerned with Article X, which morally bound the U.S. to aid any member of the League of Nations that was victimized by aggression, for Congress wanted to preserve its war-declaring power. Wilson hated Lodge, and with though he was willing to accept similar Democratic reservations and changes, he would not do so from Lodge, and thus, he ordered his Democratic supporters to vote against the treaty with the Lodge reservations attached. On November 19, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was defeated by a vote of 55 to 39. Defeat Through Deadlock About four-fifths of the senators actually didn’t mind the treaty, but unless the Senate approved the pact with the Lodge reservations tacked on, it would fail completely. Brought up for a vote again, on March 19, 1920, the treaty failed again, due in part to Wilson’s telling of Democrats to vote against the treaty…again. Wilson’s feud with Lodge, U.S. isolationism, tradition, and disillusionment all contributed to the failure of the treaty, but Wilson must share the blame as well, since he stubbornly went for “all or nothing,” and received nothing.
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