Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

112 e lusive v ictories Wilson and the Allied leaders agreed on an armistice, to go into eff ect on November 11. As the end game ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 113 in shaping a postwar settlement rested with Wilson and the Entente leaders. As for the ...

114 e lusive v ictories the new selective service system to local boards rather than implement it through a national agency. Men ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 115 young men.  In support of these eff orts, Congress approved a tem- porary ban on li ...

116 e lusive v ictories Th e Wilson administration’s response to mainstream pro-war critics was tame in comparison to how it dea ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 117 administration, such as Burleson. And it is true that the president blocked a move by ...

118 e lusive v ictories elites. Many on the left, though, also opposed the war and became the targets of political repression by ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 119 Vietnam and Iraq. Certainly, the Wilson administration had grounds for concern, given ...

120 e lusive v ictories believes he spoke for the people of the United States and more broadly for the entire world, only to be ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 121 But the president’s position began to erode as soon as the armistice went into effect. ...

122 e lusive v ictories terms, including very limited reparations and immediate German membership in the League of Nations. Germ ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 123 Most off ensive to German sensibilities, the Treaty of Versailles fi xed on Germany th ...

124 e lusive v ictories migrations had produced. Within every proposed national territory could be found regions in which minori ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 125 he traveled in Europe before the conference began, he received the adu- lation of enor ...

126 e lusive v ictories or French colonial policy) he ceded ground. We might note that Lloyd George, caught between the demands ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 127 Negotiating a peace treaty, of course, represented but the fi rst step in the peace-bu ...

128 e lusive v ictories opposition and sought to propose amendments or reservations to the treaty to induce enough senators to v ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 129 the American people to take his side and perhaps the infl uence of public opinion on t ...

130 e lusive v ictories Sumter, knowing that the rebels would be likely to fi re upon the relief ships. By contrast, Wilson hope ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 131 On the other hand, the Wilson administration’s approach to mobili- zation and to susta ...