ABSTRACT
I then returned to my office in the Villa Majestic and dictated an official minute recording who had been present, what subjects had been discussed, what documents had been used and what (if anything) had been decided. Coming to the Treaty, reparations by Germany, which as we have seen had been given first priority, took up nearly as much time as the current questions for these early weeks. They returned to the subject of war crimes but the President stuck to his guns and, after a meeting described by Orlando as 'serious and even stormy', refused to accept the majority report of the Commission until he had discussed it with Lansing, who had dissented from his colleagues. Next day (April 12th) Lloyd George reopened the subject, which gave rise first to a discussion whether the Treaty should be published as soon as it could be ready.
