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4. Description : The Economic Consequences of the Peace was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations And a century on it remains of particular relevance to our times an uncompromising and forthright analysis of how international diplomacy can be suffused by personalities prejudices personal ambition and outright uncontrolled feelings of revengeIn John Maynard Keynes then still in his mids represented the British Treasury in Paris at the meetings which would result in the Treaty of Versailles Highly intelligent extremely competent and with a perspicacity and diligence which were to make him one of the key economic figures of the th century he was first of all shocked and then appalled by the unseemly behaviour of the Allies delegates Georges Clemenceau the aged French diplomat and his compatriot Field Marshall Foch were intent on extracting punitive damages from Germany which as a byproduct would crush it economically and socially Lloyd George the British Prime Minister supported the unrealistic demands for reparation because it would enable him to get reelected with a comfortable majority President Woodrow Wilson though full of idealism proved no match against the wiles of hardened European negotiatorsKeynes saw clearly that the reparations the Allies wanted to extract would prove impossible for Germany to meet without placing its population at starvation levels crushing its industry for decades to come and sowing the seeds for another round of terrible violence either through

5. communist revolution as in Russia or by an upsurge of rightwing nationalism In the spring of Keynes left Paris returning to England to write this damning account of what happens when older and entrenched politicians pursue their own endsWith a considerable amount of detail Keynes matches the undeniable war damage on one side and the inability of Germany stripped of its monarchy its merchant fleet its colonies and important coal mines to pay billion in reparations with the sword of Damocles of compound interesting hanging over late payments Keynes measured logic cannot wholly disguise a deeply felt European passion as old men still mired in nationalistic protectionism concluded a treaty that led ineluctably towards another world war as Keynes predicted The Economic Consequence of the Peace is required listening in the st century Jonathan Keeble brilliantly relays Keynes concerns

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