by Henry Oliner | Sep 20, 2015 | History
The common belief in our history is that President Woodrow Wilson championed the concept of the League of Nations and it failed at the hands of his Republican adversaries who leaned toward isolationism. Historian Paul Johnson in his history of the 20th century,...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 21, 2011 | Anti Semitism, Israel
Jeff Jacoby writes A Palestinian state? Don’t count on it for the Boston Globe, 9/21/11. Excerpts: …the Arabs of Palestine have consistently said no when presented with the chance to build a state of their own. They said no in 1937, when the British...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 30, 2009 | Foreign policy
Woodrow Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create the League of Nations. The United States did not join the League of Nations . This precursor to the United Nations was powerless to stop the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and the other events...
