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the strictures imposed on nations by the Treaty of Versailles. In
1919 he put his fears on paper during a weekend break in
meetings of the Conference:
When nations are exhausted by wars in which they have
put forth all their strength and which leave them tired,
bleeding and broken, it is not difficult to patch up a peace
that may last until the generation which experienced the
horrors of war has passed away. . . It is therefore
comparatively easy to patch up a peace that may last for
thirty years. What is difficult, however, is to draw up a
peace which will not provoke a fresh struggle when those
who have practical experience of war have passed away...
You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her
armaments to a mere police force and her navy to that of
a fifth-rate power; all the same, in the end if she feels that
she has been unjustly treated in the peace of 1919 she will
fund the means of extracting retribution from her
conquerors.
The imposition, the deep impression made upon the
human heart of four years of unexplained slaughter will
disappear with the hearts upon which it has been marked
by the terrible sword of the Great War. The maintenance
of peace will then depend upon there being no cause of
exasperation constantly stirring up the spirit of patriotism,
of justice, of fair play. . . Although Lloyd George made a
valiant effort to see that justice was done for Germany, he
failed, not for the want of trying, but because of the
implacable forces of Internationalism arrayed against
him, characterized by the vicious and brutally ugly
behavior, attitudes and demands of Georges Clemenceau
of France.