You have been asked to advise French Premier Georges Clemenceau and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George at the Paris Peace Conference following the end of World War I. What advice would you give them when drafting a treaty of deal with a surrendered Germany? Your response must address a minimum of 3 different issues and provide explanation.
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Georges Eugène Benjamin Clemenceau 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France during World War I. A leading figure of the Independent Radicals, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic.
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Clemenceau was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and from 1917 to 1920. Demanding a total victory over Germany, he wanted reparations, colonies, Alsace-Lorraine, and strict rules to prevent Germany from rearming. He achieved these goals in the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Nicknamed "Père la Victoire" (Father Victory) or "Le Tigre" (The Tiger), in the 1920s he continued his harsh position against Germany, though not quite as much as the President Raymond Poincaré. He obtained mutual defense treaties with Britain and the United States, to unite against German aggression, but these never took effect.