Heavenly Twins (Sumner and Cunliffe)

The Palace of Versailles where the 1919 discussions concerning Germany took place.

The Heavenly Twins was the name assigned to two British delegates, the Judge Lord Sumner and the Banker Lord Cunliffe, during the 1919 Treaty of Versailles negotiations who were to set the terms of the peace to be imposed on Germany following the end of World War I. The two lords, together with the Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes, were responsible for presenting the British and British Dominions' case concerning the amount of compensatory payments, or war reparations, that were to be extracted from Germany.[1]

  1. ^ Antony Lentin (1984). Guilt at Versailles , p 33 - 38 , 55- 58. Methuen. ISBN 9780416411300. Retrieved 2009-06-14.