Henry Cabot Lodge, the famous Republican in the Senate, he was willing to negotiate. The big sticking point was the League of Nations, Article 10, contained a war declaration clause, which would have trumped Congress's ability to declare war. We would have been chaining ourselves to the League of Nations. So if the League of Nations, the dog of war, wanted to go to war, the United States would have to go with it, and in a sense we'd be giving up our national sovereignty. P.U. That stinks. And Woodrow Wilson wouldn't negotiate.