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Your point that the French were taking the Realist position re: the German problem makes a whole lot of sense to me. But what about Keynes idea that Europe as
by woodandsteel 6y ago
Your point that the French were taking the Realist position re: the German problem makes a whole lot of sense to me.
But what about Keynes idea that Europe as a whole was in economic ruin and it was necessary to rebuild it with economic aid or it would lead to political disaster. He seems to be to have been right about that.
- yyyk 6y agoFrankly, this part of the article reads like a bit of a distraction - the author is friendly, and since Keynes' original position is becoming hard to defend, he looks at a different matter which is simply not important compared to the elephant in the room. Everyone at the time including Keynes himself realized the German issue was the primary issue. The petty authoritarianism that affected E. Europe in the interwar years was a mild headache compared to the nightmare that followed. Economic aid might have helped with minority rights in the new countries, but I don't think it would have done much beyond that. We would still have had the Great Depression, and we would have gotten the political disaster then.
- woodandsteel 6y ago>We would still have had the Great Depression, and we would have gotten the political disaster then. I hate to say it, but I have to admit you are probably right.