Address in Favor of the League of Nations:
In his speech, Wilson was urging Congress to approve American’s involvement in the League of Nations and whether or not the Treaty of Versailles should be ratified. And though Wilson went on a tour around the country to gain support of the League of Nations, it was ultimately rejected by Congress. In his speech he starts out by stating that the League of Nations had nothing to due with his reputation, but was basing upon the world’s crisis, where Germanys wrong-doings were too big to ignore and that action was required. He claimed that Germany had put everything and everyone in jeopardy and that the public had to take a stand as a nation against Germany’s animosity. “only the restoration of right and the assurance of liberty everywhere that the effects of the settlement were to be felt. We entered the war as
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Wilson continues on to state that it was America’s duty to take part of every decision made as well as influencing the outcome and those who were living in the shadows. “It was our duty to do everything that it was within our power to do to make the triumph of freedom and of right a lasting triumph in the assurance of which men might everywhere live without fear,” (Wilson, 1919). Wilson also stated that it was important for us to get away from the negative influences spurred by Germany, where we must form our own principles of what’s wrong and what was right. Wilson goes on further and states that we must accept and give way to the new world and its progressive concept of peace, where up to that point there couldn’t be peace in Europe without the new order of the League of Nations, where the League of Nation’s goal was to assist in the mediation of international disputes and prevent future