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... by not being too dismissive" He claims that although they were responsible for their own people they also were also able to think on an international level. Their three main aims were "to guarantee Europe against the possibility of future German aggression; to revive the economic infrastructure of the allies; and to ensure the stability of the new nation states in central and Eastern Europe. None of these was inherently revanchist". Although they may not be 'revanchist' aims, they show little, if not no, concern for German interests. It is possible to argue that the treaty makers in fact meant the Treaty to destroy Germany. Britain, who had lost over a million men, 7 million tonnes of merchant shipping, and had spent over £75billion on the war, intended to squeeze the German orange "until the pips squeaked" (Lloyd George). France had also suffered greatly. Much fighting had been done on ...