anyone “other than our own people.” He stresses that if the president wouldn’t even allow an “international army” to get involved, then how could the League possibly work. In the political cartoon, Document E, the artist is portraying Woodrow Wilson and foreign entanglements getting married. Objecting to the marriage is the United States Senate, holding a paper of their constitutional rights. The Senate largely opposed the League Covenant –Article 10-, the League of Covenant required member nations to attempt to solve disputes peacefully. If that attempt fails, the nations were to observe a waiting period before going to war. This Article took away Senates constitutional power to declare war. They were upset about this; they wanted their constitutional rights protected. Document H strongly urges The League of Nations, yet it criticizes both the Republicans who got involved and Woodrow Wilson. W.E.B. De Bois criticizes Wilson, saying that if he weren’t so stubborn and “idiotic” then the League of Nations would have worked. Since Wilson wasn’t willing to compromise with the Republicans, the United States must suffer by not joining in at the assembly of the League of Nations, which is “the most forward-looking event of the century” according to De Bois. These three documents all criticize Wilson in one-way or another. They blame the unsuccessful amending of the Treaty on Wilson and his stubborn attitude. In Document B, The New Republic stressed that competition and imperialism are good for the country because the “fruit of competition” which is stressed as a good thing, can only end in peace. On the other hand, everything that the Treaty of Versailles stand for doesn’t fulfill “these aspirations,” it just intensifies the problems that we already have. This Document says nothing of Wilson’s stubbornness or ineptitude, it mainly criti...
