During the peace negotiations of World War I Wilson brought back home to the Senate the version of the Treaty of Versailles that included the League of Nations. Almost immediately large group of Republican congressmen, including Henry Cabot Lodge as a leader opposed that version because of the idea that the US would be forced to be involved in defensive wars for other nations (especially without congressional approval).
Lodge attempted to compromise by highlighting a few articles he would have changed, especially Article X. He also iirc proposed that one part of the treaty without the League would be ratified first with the second coming soon, but Woodrow would have none of it and his inability to compromise would lead to America not being able to join the League of Nations or similar defensive agreements with France and the UK which many saw as a contributing factor to WW2.
As a fun fact, William C. Bullitt an American ambassador and Sigmund Freud coauthored a book about how Woodrow’s mental illness sabotaged him with his failure to compromise with Lodge being seen as a major point. Essentially according to those two Woodrow saw himself as a Second Coming of Christ and had tendencies of being unable to accept what seemed like betrayal stemming from being too effeminate with his father and other assorted Freud bullshit.
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During the peace negotiations of World War I Wilson brought back home to the Senate the version of the Treaty of Versailles that included the League of Nations. Almost immediately large group of Republican congressmen, including Henry Cabot Lodge as a leader opposed that version because of the idea that the US would be forced to be involved in defensive wars for other nations (especially without congressional approval).
Lodge attempted to compromise by highlighting a few articles he would have changed, especially Article X. He also iirc proposed that one part of the treaty without the League would be ratified first with the second coming soon, but Woodrow would have none of it and his inability to compromise would lead to America not being able to join the League of Nations or similar defensive agreements with France and the UK which many saw as a contributing factor to WW2.
As a fun fact, William C. Bullitt an American ambassador and Sigmund Freud coauthored a book about how Woodrow’s mental illness sabotaged him with his failure to compromise with Lodge being seen as a major point. Essentially according to those two Woodrow saw himself as a Second Coming of Christ and had tendencies of being unable to accept what seemed like betrayal stemming from being too effeminate with his father and other assorted Freud bullshit.