Motives of great Britain
We want a peace which will be just, but not vindictive... Above all, we want to protect the future against a repetition of the horrors of this war. He said he would ‘make Germany pay’ – because he knew that was what the British people wanted to hear.He wanted ‘justice’, but he did not want revenge. He said that the peace must not be harsh – that would just cause another war in a few years time. He tried to get a ‘halfway point’ – a compromise between Wilson and Clemenceau.