16 September-19 November 1919: The Lodge Reservations—The U.S. Senate debated the Treaty of Versailles, including the Covenant of the League of Nations; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (R., Mass.) favored joining the League, with certain reservations, but the Wilson White House ordered pro-treaty Democrats to reject any & all amendments, allying with the intensely anti-treaty "Irreconcilables."
Lest we forget.
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