TAFT, William Howard.
League To Enforce Peace. American Branch.
New York: Printed by the League To Enforce Peace , 1915.
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First Edition of League To Enforce Peace; Signed by William Howard Taft
First edition of this work, signed by President William Howard Taft. Octavo, original boards. Signed by William Howard Taft on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sincerely yours William H. Taft Sept 14th 1915." In near fine condition.
In 1915, Taft became the first president of the League to Enforce Peace, an organization that advocated the formation of an international coalition aimed at preventing war. The fruition of President Wilson's Fourteen Points plan similarly and more famously established the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, with the League's charter later incorporated into the conference's WWI-dissolving Treaty of Versailles. Taft's public support of the League was chastised by many of his fellow Republicans, and his inconsistent views on the Versailles reservations were rebuked by both parties. Wilson's opposition to any amendments or reservations of the treaty subsequently concluded with its final rejection on March 19, 1920.
League To Enforce Peace. American Branch.
$3,500.00
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