President Woodrow Wilson addresses a crowd in St. Louis, Missouri while on a speaking tour to promote the League of Nations in 1919. Despite his efforts, the treaty was not approved by Congress ...

Lodge believed that the League, under Article Ten, could require the United States to commit economic or military force to maintain the collective security of member nations. Wilson did not share ...

Named after former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, the opulent 225-room Palais Wilson in Geneva was the first headquarters of the forerunner of the U.N., the League of Nations, and today is home to the ...

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GENEVA -- The League of Nations assembled today amid the ringing ... Paul Hymans of Belgium opened the session, reading President Wilson's convocations. Premier Motta of Switzerland welcomed ...

Upon the wall supporting the terrace below the Secretariat of the League of Nations is a tablet: “To the Memory of Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, Founder of the League of Nations.

The United States was not one of the High Contracting Parties to the League of Nations. Although President Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 Fourteen Points included a “league of nations to ensure peace ...

President Wilson never recovered. Congress adopted the treaty but rejected U.S. entry into the League of Nations. As the election of 1920 approached, the Democratic candidates for President and ...