... United States, refused to ratify it in the senate. American policy had temporarily shifted from isolationism to internationalism because of the war, however the United States senate was not ready for the responsibilities of a world peacekeeper. Due to a republican majority, senators Henry Cabot Lodge, Alfred Beveridge, and other isolationist senators helped to sway the rest of congress to deny the ratification of the ... of a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress in order that he might be wholly unhampered in the approaching negotiations.? This was unsuccessful and showed to sp...

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