ABSTRACT
By the time of President Wilson's arrival in London on Boxing Day, 1918, the Imperial War Cabinet had covered most of the outstanding matters on which Lloyd George desired to have the views of his colleagues before his conversations. The President supported the attitude already taken up by House in Paris that 'English and French should both be the official languages and that the reports of the Conference should be published in both languages'. Lloyd George observes in his memoirs that 'the account of the Buckingham Palace conversations with the President produced a worse impression on the minds of the Cabinet than the actual interview had on mine'. At Criccieth with the Prime Minister and Philip Kerr. Long walks and scrambles; long talks about the membership of the new Cabinet; many drives about the constituency, interlarded with speeches in Welsh, cheers, and interminable conversations about local Welsh politics.
