Coolidge Administrations - Foreign Issues
Foreign Issues
Coolidge generally followed the foreign policies set by his predecessor, Warren Harding. Coolidge opposed U.S. entry into the League of Nations and, like Harding, gave lip service to the United States becoming a member of the Permanent Court of International Justice (the World Court), though he made no attempt to gain Senate approval for this step. Coolidge also pressed for the payment of Allied war debts and reparations by Germany for the damages it inflicted on the Allies during World War I. He strongly opposed the cancellation of the war debts owed to the United States by its European allies. "They hired the money, didn't they? Let them pay it!" he is supposed to have said (White, p. 384).
The Geneva Conference of 1927
The public's desire for peace remained very strong during the years following the end of World War I. President...
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