‘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

From magazine issue: 29 July 2023

Woodrow Wilson. [Getty Images]

issue 29 July 2023

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