Use the excerpt from a 1919 speech by Henry Cabot Lodge to answer the question.%0D%0AI am as anxious as any human being can be to have the United States render every possible service to the civilization and the peace of mankind. But I am certain that we can do it best by not putting ourselves in leading strings, or subjecting our policies and our sovereignty to other nations. The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves, but to the world, than any single possession.%0D%0A— US Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, August 26, 1919%0D%0ABased on this excerpt, Senator Lodge opposed%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AA. %0D%0Ajoining the League of Nations.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AB. %0D%0Areturning to isolationism.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AC. %0D%0Aadopting containment policy.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AD. %0D%0Aabolishing immigration quotas.

A. joining the League of Nations.