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On 12 January 1919 the Supreme Council met in Paris. One of the first issues it had to discuss was representation at the Peace Conference. The British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, said that he would have to press the question of separate representation for the self-governing British Dominions and India. President Woodrow Wilson was unenthusiastic; ‘the impression amongst those who did not know the full facts would be that they were merely additional British Representatives’. After some discussion, it was decided that the Dominions and India might have one delegate each (the same as Siam and Portugal). Lloyd George hesitated; he had better, he thought, consult with his colleagues in the British Empire Delegation. The following day, he reported that the Dominion leaders had been disappointed and indeed rather annoyed. The Supreme Council thereupon decided that Canada, Australia, South Africa and India would have two delegates each and New Zealand one.1
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MacMillan, M. (2001). Isosceles Triangle: Britain, the Dominions and the United States at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In: Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Relations. Contemporary History in Context Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985311_1
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