<span>Rather than allow senators to
accompany him to Paris for treaty negotiations following World War I,
President Wilson insisted upon having exclusive control over the terms
of the treaty. Congress was dissatisfied, however, particularly with an
article that would require members of the League to defend one another
in the event that one was attacked. Lodge and Wilson had been engaged in
a power struggle brought about as the result of each thinking himself
intellectually and professionally superior to the other. Since Senator
Lodge was both the Senate Majority Leader and the Chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee, Wilson needed his support in order for the
treaty to be passed. Instead of seeking support, however, Wilson spoke
negatively of Lodge. This angered supporters of Lodge. As a result, by
the time the treaty reached the floor of the Senate for a vote, 14
reservations had been attached to it. The rejection of the Treaty of
Versailles and the League of Nations was the first time the U.S.
Congress rejected a treaty.</span>
In other words, the Declaratory Act of 1766 asserted that Parliament had the absolute power to make laws and changes to the colonial government, "in all cases whatsoever", even though the colonists were not represented in the Parliament.
Answer:
During the Qing dynasty period and in at beginning of the 20th century, a handful of land owners and nobles held almost 80% of China's lands and the wealth was concentrated only on the wealthy higher class.
The working class people who were mostly peasants were left with nothing. They were unable to even satisfy their basic needs! Famine, starvation, and diseases spread every where and the rulers were unable to protect China and her interests from aggressive foreign colonial powers like Europeans, Americans and Japanese.
It is because of this immense economic and social pressure that communism became popular among the ordinary people in China.
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