https://www.vox.com/22959938/crime-war-kellogg-briand-ukraine-conquest
"The Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I and establishing a new
postwar order, began with a charter for a new organization. Called the Covenant
of the League of Nations, the new body was meant to resolve international
disputes peaceably — and, crucially, it committed members to “respect and
preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing
political independence of all Members of the League.”
That promise, Article X of the Covenant, was the work of then-US President
Woodrow Wilson. Wilson chaired the committee at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference
that drafted the covenant, and historian John Milton Cooper, in his book
Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League
of Nations, describes Article X as “Wilson’s singular contribution to the
Draft Covenant.”
Wilson’s Article would help doom the League. Opponents of US entry into the
League, like Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA), argued that the provision obligated
the United States to jump to the defense of any country around the world,
entangling it in conflicts it had no part in. Lodge called it “the most
important article in the whole treaty,” which would send “the best of our
youth” on a foolish “errand” to “guarantee the political independence and
territorial integrity of every nation on earth.”
These skeptics eventually won out. The US would never join the League, a fact
that contributed heavily to its eventual failure in the runup to World War II.
If remembered at all, the League of Nations is usually remembered as an
embarrassing failed experiment. But some of the experiment has succeeded."
Via Larry Lessig:
https://medium.lessig.org/
Cheers,
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