ABSTRACT
Franklin Roosevelt had been a champion of the League of Nations while serving as President Woodrow Wilson’s assistant secretary of the navy and again when running for vice president on the Democratic ticket in 1920. But as public opinion recoiled from Wilson’s vision in the 1920s, Roosevelt grew more cautious. Then, during his campaign for the presidency in 1932, Roosevelt bowed to the pressure of the powerhouse Democratic publisher William Randolph Hearst and publicly renounced the League of Nations.
