Lloyd George hoped to achieve a lasting peace at the Paris peace conference. He also
needed to make Germany pay for starting the war as the British public had voted him
in as Prime Minister on the promise that he would do this. He personally did not want
Germany to be crippled as he feared that this would lead to resentment and could
lead to them starting another war in revenge. He also did not want them crippled
because Germany had been Britain’s leading trading partner before the war and he
wanted this trade resumed so that Britain’s economy could grow again.
