a complete victory over germany and the return of isis and logon to france. clearly also also demanded that germany pay she would reparations for the damage it had caused during the wall. but the british and u.s. delegations were concerned that reparations would ruin the defeated powers financially and could lead to domestic tensions and even civil war as in russia. president wilson. spent the last 5 days of 1918 in britain and on january the 1st travelled to italy for talks with king viktor emanuel and the prime minister. wilson also began preparing for the international peace conference due to open on january the 19th. he continued to push for the approval of his 14 point program