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‘There was not only a difference of principles at Paris (Peace Conference) but a clash of personalities.’ Comment.

  • UPSC 2001
  • World Wars

The Paris Peace Conference (January-June 1919) was shaped as much by the temperaments of its three dominant statesmen — Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George — as by any abstract disagreement over principle.

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  • Woodrow Wilson: The Idealist Abroad, Isolated at Home
  • Georges Clemenceau: "The Tiger"
  • David Lloyd George: The Broker Between Extremes
  • Where Principle and Personality Became Inseparable
  • Consequences of the Personal Dynamic

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