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UNITED STATES DEFAULT OF WORLD LEADERSHIP: ITS MAJOR TREATY NEGOTIATIONS OF THE NINETEEN-TWENTIES
Abstract
The title of this study is: United States Default of world Leadership: Its Major Treaty Negotiations of the Nineteen-twenties. There have been many studies centered on the nineteen-twenties but few, if any, have cast a critical eye in the direction of the executive branch of the United States Government. The tendency has been to excuse or gloss over the part played by the presidents in directing the United States government in pursuit of its traditional policies in foreign affairs in the post-war America of the nineteen-twenties. Generally it has been assumed that the executives in this decade were powerless in the face of a United States Senate dedicated to the preservation of Washington's Farewell Address and the Monroe Doctrine. But the Constitution charged the executive branch of the Government with the responsibility of conducting the foreign relations of the United States.Thus it was essential that the executives of this decade exert leader- ship and guidance not only for the "Lions of the Senate" but also for the American people as a whole. This the administrations of the decade did not do. Instead they tended to move behind these groups rather than at the front.
Subject Area
Modern history|History
Recommended Citation
COOPER, HAROLD, "UNITED STATES DEFAULT OF WORLD LEADERSHIP: ITS MAJOR TREATY NEGOTIATIONS OF THE NINETEEN-TWENTIES" (1959). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI5901781.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI5901781