William E. Borah
American foreign policy
William E. Borah
Speech on the League of Nations
November 19, 1919
In 1919 in order to secure peace and to avoid bloodshed of other wars, American Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, managed to impose some of his ideas -based on the Fourteen Points- during the Paris Peace Conference, including the creation of the League of Nations. The League was an international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. Its goals included disarmament, the prevention of war through collective security, the settlement of disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improvement of global welfare.[1] Drafted by a special commission, the League was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles which was first signed by 44 States on June 28, 1919 but needed a followed ratification by every State. Despite Wilson 's efforts to establish and promote the League, the United States never ratified the Treaty, America consequently never joined the League due to the opposition in the US Senate controlled by the Republicans since November 1918. With the Senate against him, Wilson decided to go to the people and in September 1919, he started a tour campaign across the country to rally American citizens to his cause. Delivering thirty-six speeches in twenty-three days, he suffered from a stroke that paralysed his left side on September 26, while he was giving a speech in Colorado. The rest of his trip campaign had therefore been cancelled. Opposed to Wilson were the Republicans, whom strongest and most virulent opponent was the Senator of Idaho: William Edgar Borah (1865-1940). In few words, Borah was a confirmed isolationist and the leader of the “irreconcilables”, a small but redoubtable group of some thirteen senators, who virulently insisted on the rejection of the treaty. He was known as a famed orator and later the Time magazine decided that he was “the most famed Senator of the century”.[2] It has been said that
William E. Borah
Speech on the League of Nations
November 19, 1919
In 1919 in order to secure peace and to avoid bloodshed of other wars, American Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, managed to impose some of his ideas -based on the Fourteen Points- during the Paris Peace Conference, including the creation of the League of Nations. The League was an international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. Its goals included disarmament, the prevention of war through collective security, the settlement of disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improvement of global welfare.[1] Drafted by a special commission, the League was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles which was first signed by 44 States on June 28, 1919 but needed a followed ratification by every State. Despite Wilson 's efforts to establish and promote the League, the United States never ratified the Treaty, America consequently never joined the League due to the opposition in the US Senate controlled by the Republicans since November 1918. With the Senate against him, Wilson decided to go to the people and in September 1919, he started a tour campaign across the country to rally American citizens to his cause. Delivering thirty-six speeches in twenty-three days, he suffered from a stroke that paralysed his left side on September 26, while he was giving a speech in Colorado. The rest of his trip campaign had therefore been cancelled. Opposed to Wilson were the Republicans, whom strongest and most virulent opponent was the Senator of Idaho: William Edgar Borah (1865-1940). In few words, Borah was a confirmed isolationist and the leader of the “irreconcilables”, a small but redoubtable group of some thirteen senators, who virulently insisted on the rejection of the treaty. He was known as a famed orator and later the Time magazine decided that he was “the most famed Senator of the century”.[2] It has been said that
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