"Article X says that every member of the League, and that means every great fighting power in the world, … solemnly engages to r
espect and preserve … the territorial integrity and existing political independence of the other members of the League. If you do that, you have absolutely stopped ambitious and aggressive war." Woodrow Wilson’s statement above was made in justification of his
refusing to agree with the proposal of Henry Cabot Lodge on 'reservations'.
Explanation:
The League of Nations was an international peacekeeping organization that was set after the World War 1 to maintain peace worldwide. Woodrow Wilson was an advocate of this League but could not sign the League because of the firm opposition from the Congress. The League of Nations was set to hopefully prevent another war but failed to stop World War 2 from happening.
Henry Cabot Lodge, who was the Senator of the United States, proposed fourteen reservations before entering into the League of Nations. These reservations were denied by Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States.
The statement mentioned above by Woodrow Wilson was stated when he refused to accept the Lodge's reservations over his ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.
