An excerpt from a speech by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge to the US Senate urging caution about the League of Nations, August 12, 1919.

In this speech, Republican Majority Leader and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations Henry Cabot Lodge speaks to the Senate about US sovereignty and the need for the nation to be cautious about Wilson’s proposed League of Nations. The idea for the League, or a coalition of nations that would protect the sovereignty of countries around the world, came from Wilson’s Fourteen Points speech as well as Article X of the Treaty of Versailles.

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Old Colony Trust Company, excerpt from “The treaty of Versailles, American opinion,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/1ca8fde2b2672898a633d290d4118789.
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