Frankly, 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

Frankly, 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.