Reply #15: what would have stopped WW2 [View All]

[Zomby Woof]

Was making Versailles less harsh and punitive in its demands on Germany. Blame the French for that one.

Lincoln knew that a compassionate tack with the south would aid in reconstruction, and was killed for it anyway, and we finally learned the lesson after WW2, by extending a helping hand to Japan and Germany.

Why all this hand-wringing over the League? They were doomed from the git-go, as hapless and ineffectual. The myth that the United States having membership in it would have saved us from the second is a strange one to still be holding on to 80 years out.

I think the Nation article about Dean is a wash, but over all, I love the magazine, and highly doubt it ever had that much pull, in Wilson's time or our own.