A Revision Of The Treaty

From The State of Opinion almost immediately after its ratification, it became clear that the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was at least partly unworkable-and in this 1922 work, famed economist John Maynard Keynes dissected the problems he saw as the Treaty of Versailles was being put into practice. In what he called a sequel to his 1919 book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Keynes discusses: The debate over German reparations, The legality of occupying Germany east of the Rhine, ,The division of reparations among the allies, How to best handle inter-ally debt, etc. “But this book is strictly what it represents itself to be—a Sequel; I might almost have said an Appendix. I have nothing very new to say on the fundamental issues. Some of the Remedies which I proposed two years ago are now everybodyʼs commonplaces, and I have nothing startling to add to them. My object is a strictly limited one, namely to provide facts and materials for an intelligent review of the Reparation Problem as it now is.”—Keynes