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What part did Henry Cabot Lodge play in decision to join the League of Nations?

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What part did Henry Cabot Lodge play in decision to join the League of Nations?

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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts led the fight against the League of Nations in the United States Senate. Lodge was the ultimate politician, and Wilson was not. Lodge knew that the longer the debate over the League lasted, the less the American people would take an interest in the ratification of the League. He dragged the debate in the Senate on and on. At one point he even read the entire 264 pages of the treaty into his committee’s hearings. In the end, after Wilson collapsed while on his tour of the nation to gain support for the League, the Senate rejected US membership in the League.