Simon Ings

‘We cannot turn back’ from the League of Nations, said Woodrow Wilson – but did just that

His fateful intransigence over the negotiations has been variously ascribed to a Christ-complex, an unhappy childhood and even latent homosexuality

Woodrow Wilson. [Getty Images]
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