Read about Henry Cabot Lodge's opposition to the League of Nations and answers the question that follows. “I have never had but one allegiance—I cannot divide it now. I have loved but one flag and I cannot share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league. Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.

“National I must remain, and in that way I like all other Americans can render the amplest service to the world. The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence . . . . We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.”

—Henry Cabot Lodge
August 1919

What actions did Henry Cabot Lodge believe that the United States should take in the world?

settle European disputes

service foreign interests

look after its own affairs

fight international wars