The end of the First World War saw Britain at the height of its
power. Its fleet and air force were the largest in the world. Its
armies had triumphed in the Middle East and spearheaded the final
attacks in Western Europe that had driven the defeated Germans to
seek an armistice. Britain now had to translate this military
victory into the achievement of its war aims and future security
and prosperity. Its main negotiator at the forthcoming peace
conference would be its prime minister, the ebullient and enigmatic
David Lloyd George (1863-1945), the "Welsh Wizard" - "the man who
had won the war". Lloyd George's energy had maintained the war
effort through the dark days of 1917 and early 1918, but now he
anticipated, with relish, the prospect of winning the peace. Few
were better equipped. He was a skilled and accomplished negotiator
with the knack of reconciling the apparently irreconcilable. His
admirers, of whom there were many, pointed to his brilliant and
agile mind, his rapid grasp of complex questions and his powers of
persuasion. His critics, who were also numerous, distrusted his
sleight of hand, fleetness of foot and, frankly, his word. His six
months in Paris in 1919, as he pitted his wits against formidable
world leaders like Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau, were
among the most enjoyable but exhausting of his life. This study
investigates the extent to which Lloyd George succeeded in his aims
and evaluates the immediate and longer-term results of his
negotiations for Britain.
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