With the end of the First World War, heads of state and heads of government met face to face at the peace conference in Versailles and discovered they could communicate only with great difficulty.Conferences that should have ended 】in hours dragged on for days. With the end of the First World War, heads of state and heads of government met face to face at the peace conference in Versailles – and discovered they could communicate only with great difficulty. Conferences that should have ended in hours dragged on for days