If I was Brockdorff-Rantzau the costs of the Treaty of Versailles to the German people would be about 63 million dollars. The British prime minister David Lloyd George and American president Woodrow Wilson issued public explanations of what they hoped to accomplish through a victory over the central powers. Wilson recived input from his closest advisor Colonel Edward House and number of academics. The resulting Fourteen Points were presented in a speech before both houses of Congress and were intended to generated support for Wilson's vision psotward both at home and also among allies in