WILSON, Woodrow.

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Constitution of the League of Nations. Signed by Woodrow Wilson on the front free endpaper and dated 19 July 1919, three weeks after the Treaty of Versailles was signed and nine days after he submitted it to the Senate for ratification. Wilson was the League of Nations' foremost political architect and champion, and regarded it as central to collective security and a durable post-war settlement. The League was a central element of the Treaty of Versailles, its Covenant forming Part I. However, the Senate's rejection of the Treaty in November 1919 and March 1920 kept the United States outside the League, a profound defeat that deprived Wilson's international order of American participation.

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