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When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Versailles #13: David Lloyd George Profile Part 1/2

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8773 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

David Lloyd George, the unlikely Prime Minister, and the only PM in history to have spoken Welsh fluently, comes under our microscope in the final of our profiler episode couplets. Lloyd George's childhood and upbringing, his experience of life in Wales, his love of country, of justice and of independence - these were all important building blocks of a character which would soon serve Britain at its most critical time.

We open our account of Lloyd George with an anecdote from Harold Nicolson, a vital eyewitness to the events of the Paris Peace Conference, and a man who happened to be present when the PM jubilantly announced the end to the war. This represented the end of a long, exhausting journey for Lloyd George, but he wasn't finished yet! Join us as we unwrap Lloyd George the man, before he became Lloyd George the leader.

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0:00.0

Hello there, history friends. You are about to listen to the latest episode of the Versailles

0:03.8

Anniversary Project. My name is Zach Twomley, and of course I will be your host for this episode

0:09.8

and for the rest of pretty much everything we do here at When Diplomacy Fails.

0:14.2

The Versailles Anniversary Project is a really, well, really large project, let's just state

0:19.3

the obvious here. It's an eight-month-long

0:21.7

extravaganza, and it really just bring you to the heart of what the Treaty of Versailles was all

0:25.9

about. It puts you in the lives of those men that were there 100 years ago, and it challenges

0:31.0

you, not just to remember all of their names, but also to see if you could have done things

0:34.7

differently. Speaking of trying to do things differently, what better way to see if you could have done things differently. Speaking of trying to do things differently, what better way to see if you could have done a better

0:39.3

job than to log in to the delegation game?

0:42.3

The delegation game is a very special thing I've had planned for a while now, wherein you invent an avatar and you send him to the Paris Peace Conference,

0:50.3

and I then work out ways to challenge these avatars that you've created every single

0:56.1

week. And every single week will be holding different poles and everything else to see how we get

1:00.7

on and to see what happens to these people that you've all sent there, how they interact with one

1:04.6

another, what kind of accidents or incidents or great events challenge them or confront them. And

1:10.6

do they emerge on top?

1:12.4

Or do they get drowned by the pressure and stresses of the whole event? What do they achieve in the

1:17.5

end? And do they do a better job than those that were there a century ago? The delegation game

1:22.1

is a multi-layered thing, and you can find out more about it by going to WDFpodcast.com

1:27.1

forward slash delegation game

1:28.8

or just clicking the link in the description of this episode below.

1:32.2

But you should know that if you're interested in not just role-playing games or Dungeons

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