Furthermore, on November 27, Senator Lodge wrote an extraordinary letter to the British foreign secretary saying that Republicans would support him if he opposed Wilson regarding the League of Nations.18

Patriotism may have justified standing by the devil himself so long as the country was in travail. But we shouldn’t become mere boot lickers.”

As he told Kohlstaat, he had “treated them with absolute frankness and as friends and cooperators, but they responded sluggishly, to say the least.”

The appeal was reminiscent of the previously mentioned New York World’s editorial, “No Divided Government.” Wilson began by stating that no political party was “paramount in matters of patriotism.” However, the government faced such difficult and delicate tasks at the present that it was “imperatively necessary that the nation should give its

“the entire genius of the nation is that of compromise.”

“the most humiliating collapse in American foreign policy in a hundred and forty years of independence”