Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to follow the various statements of the war aims of David Lloyd George both as he expressed them personally and as indicated by his reactions to those stated by others. It shall be the writer's endeavor to center attention upon the aims made public In comparison with those actually achieved and embodied In the Treaty of Versailles. |The writer has thought It well to offer a preliminary chapter giving a resume of the general aims as expressed from August 3, 1914, when England entered the war, until Lloyd George accepted the office of Prime Minister, December 12, 1916. The following two chapters will be concerned with the declarations made by way of public pronouncements by statesmen and the exchange of diplomatic notes within the time that Lloyd George became Prime Minister until steps were taken toward an Armistice. The fourth chapter covers the period during which movements toward and actual negotiations resulting In the Armistice took place. The fifth deals with the period from the Armistice, November 11, 1918, up to the meeting of the Peace Conference in Paris. The sixth chapter is concerned with the ambitions and actual accomplishments of the British member of the “Big Four“ during the momentous weeks between January 18 and June 28, 1919. It will be noted that his expressed aims and what he really succeeded in accomplishing are frequently divergent.