Versailles #18: OTD 26 Dec 1918 - Wilson Goes To London

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

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 26th December 1918 - Woodrow Wilson meets David Lloyd George in London!

Hope you're all not TOO full of foodstuffs, because we have an important little bulletin to bring to you! The US President's visit to London in late 1918 was significant for a myriad of reasons - not least of which was the sight of an American President getting a horse and carriage ride through the city's streets! Who would ever have imagined that such displays were possible between former colony and former master?

Now these powers were firm friends, and the relationship between President and PM would only improve as time went on, and the two men realised they had more and more in common, to the detriment of the French premier of course, who quickly became something of an outsider.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you history friends!

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0:00.0	Hi there. My name is Zach Twomley. Very happy Christmas to you, if you were listening to this on the 26th of December.
0:06.8	What are you doing? Going to spend time with your families or something, you shouldn't be here.
0:10.9	I'm just kidding. You're very welcome and I'm very happy to have you. This is episode 18 of the Versa I anniversary project.
0:17.5	So make sure and go and listen to the past episodes if you haven't already. Why do you
0:21.2	always say that, Zach? Well, because sometimes people actually message me or email me asking
0:25.4	what the story is with the latest episode. They don't understand it. Why am I on episode 18? No,
0:30.9	really, that does happen. So I don't say this for no reason. I also think it's nice to have a bit of
0:36.1	a welcome. And you are very welcome to
0:38.0	this podcast. The Versa Anniversary Project is something that I'm able to spend time on thanks
0:43.2	to the support of my lovely patrons. So if you would like to support this podcast monetarily,
0:48.8	and get some pretty sweet things in return, then head on over to patreon.com forward slash when
0:54.6	diplomacy fails or click the link in the description below. If you listened to the previous
0:59.3	alt history episodes that I redid for you guys, then you will know that we recently added
1:04.8	a new goal. When we get to $2,000 a month on Patreon, we will be doing something very, very
1:10.1	special indeed if you weren't aware.
1:12.2	It involves looking at an alternative history question which I've been asked to cover so many
1:16.3	times over. Ever since I did that alternative history series on asking what would have happened
1:20.6	if Gavarito Prince had missed and look just below this episode if you want to listen to that,
1:24.6	but ever since I did that, I've been asked, Hey, Zach, why don't you do something on the Second World War or the American Civil War or
1:29.8	that kind of thing? I say nay to the American Civil War, at least for the moment, but I will
1:34.7	be looking at a critical question, what if Nazi Germany won the Second World War? Isn't that
1:40.7	an interesting question? Maybe the whole idea of it sounds impossible, but I have
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