ABSTRACT
Lloyd George's accession to the Premiership was the prelude to more action. He wanted a British advance on Palestine from Egypt; he wanted Palestine to be British; he wanted favours for international Jewry in Palestine; and he wanted no pledges to the Arabs that conflicted with this programme. At the peace conference and after it, Lloyd George and his ministers were also concerned with the major problem of creating a completely new Power-structure in the Middle East. Herbert Samuel, Balfour, Lord Robert Cecil and Lloyd George himself proved particularly receptive, and so were a number of the young men in the 'garden suburb'. The most celebrated propagandist was the Zionist leader, Chaim Weizmann, who was particularly successful in wooing both Lloyd George and Robert Cecil. The arguments at Paris were bitter, but Lloyd George and Balfour were too entangled in the web of past errors and present controversies to be able to resist Clemenceau.
