Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after a careful non-partisan investigation of conditions and public opinion here in regard to the ratification of the Treaty has made a report in which one feels he has given us the benefit of the doubt. He has explained to the English people the causes underlying the deadlock between President and Senate. Nothing can make for future friendly relations between nations so much as an intimate understanding on the part of one of the workings of the national consciousness of the other...
...impatience and disappointment at the delay of the United States in ratifying the Peace Treaty and the covenant of the League of Nations. It is perhaps not so generally recognized here that there is also impatience and disappointment in the United States. Nowhere is the impasse caused by the deadlock between the President and the Senate more keenly regretted than in the United States, where there is a strong and even urgent desire in the public opinion to see a way out of that impasse found which will be both honorable to the United States and helpful to the world...