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Article 10 and divided American support for the League

Article 10 connects the League membership dispute to congressional war powers and conflicting American positions on collective security.

Notes

The League of Nations dispute includes concern about Congress's authority to declare war. The objection is that collective obligations could take decisions about war out of American hands. American insistence on Article 10 is then contrasted with the use of that article as a reason to refuse membership. Support for the proposed institution differed between the Americans shaping it and those opposing entry.