![]() ![]() Clemenceau, for his part, developed a grudging lik- ing for Lloyd George, although he always complained that he was badly educated. In time, he claimed, he came to appreciate Clemenceau immensely for his wit, his strength of character and his passionate devotion to France. Lloyd George’s impression was of a ”œdisagree- able and rather bad-tempered old sav- age.” He noticed, he said, that in Clemenceau’s large head ”œthere was no dome of benevolence, reverence, or kindliness.” When the two men crossed paths again during the war, Lloyd George made it clear that there was to be no more bullying. Clemenceau found Lloyd George shockingly ignorant, both of Europe and the United States. Their first meeting had not been a success. ![]() Although he was still feeling his way with America’s Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George had known France’s Georges Clemenceau on and off since 1908. ![]() With his arrival in Paris the three key peacemakers, on whom so much depended, were finally in one place. On January 11, 1919, Prime Minister David Lloyd George bounded with his usual ener- gy onto a British destroyer for the Channel crossing. ![]()
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