USA HISTORY

Of the following people, who led opposition to the Covenant of the League within the U.S. Congress?

(A) Georges Clemenceau

(B) David Lloyd George

(C) ** Henry Cabot Lodge

(D) Woodrow Wilson

Concept note-1: -Henry Cabot Lodge, (born May 12, 1850, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.-died November 9, 1924, Cambridge, Massachusetts), Republican U.S. senator for more than 31 years (1893–1924); he led the successful congressional opposition to his country’s participation in the League of Nations following World War I.

Concept note-2: -On February 28, 1919, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts began an assault on President Woodrow Wilson’s proposal to establish a League of Nations that ultimately culminated in the Senate’s rejection of the Treaty of Versailles.

Concept note-3: -The opposition came from two groups: the “Irreconcilables, ” who refused to join the League of Nations under any circumstances, and “Reservationists, ” led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Henry Cabot Lodge, who were willing to ratify the treaty with amendments.

Concept note-4: -After World War I, Lodge became Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the leader of the Senate Republicans. From that position, he led the opposition to Wilson’s Treaty of Versailles, proposing fourteen reservations to the treaty.

Concept note-5: -The opposition came from two groups: the “Irreconcilables, ” who refused to join the League of Nations under any circumstances, and “Reservationists, ” led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Henry Cabot Lodge, who wanted amendments made before they would ratify the Treaty.