“WE CAN ALWAYS DEPEND ON MR. WILSON”
Wilson, the Senate, and the Treaty of Versailles
WHEN WORLD WAR I ended on November 11, 1918, Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth president of the United States, chose to personally attend the Paris Peace Conference that would create a postwar order—the first time a sitting American president visited Europe. Wilson’s idealistic rhetoric during the war had made him the idol of the European public, and he was received as few have ever been. When he arrived in Paris he was greeted by two million rapturous Parisians chanting his name. Wilson used this popularity and his position as leader of the nation whose strength had made the Allied victory possible to add a League of Nations to the Treaty of Versailles ...
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