... against the various liabilities of the German
government.(18*) The effective operation of these articles is
guaranteed by the delivery of deeds, titles, and
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casualties of the war have diminished the numbers of...
... It was the task of the peace conference to honour engagements
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The Economic Consequences
of the Peace ... became
nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of
true religion. There grew round the non-consumption of the cake
all those ins...
... accordance with
the addresses of the President, and the purpose of the peace
conference is 'to discuss the details of their application.' The
circumstances of the contract were of an unusually ... burdens on to the shoulders of the
defeated.
Two rival schemes for the future polity of the world took the
field the Fourteen Points of t...
... average of about £200 per
head, would, however, be fairly liberal. The official estimate of
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Poland and the other ... as to the nationality of the
troops inflicting the damage; on the other hand, the Note of the
Allies speaks of 'German' aggression when it mi...
... "hanging the Kaiser" and plumps
for the payment of the cost of the war by Germany, who rouses his
audience and strikes the notes to which they are most
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE ... breach of one of
the most sacred possible of such engagements on the part of the
victorious champions of these ideals.(27*)
Apart from other as...
... reparation. The first charge upon it,
under article 251 of the treaty, is the cost of the armies of
occupation both during the armistice and after the conclusion of
peace. The aggregate of this ... could not be met otherwise
than in gold. The failure of the Reichsbank to meet its
liabilities would have caused a depreciation of the exchange so
THE ECON...
... did not sow the decay of the whole
civilised life of Europe. Some preach it in the name of justice.
In the great events of man's history, in the unwinding of the
complex fates of nations, ... be the amount of their
liabilities on the one hand, and their capacity to pay on the
other.
The German offer of an alleged sum of £5,000 million amounted...
... to the
peace conference of the Allied and Associated Powers the Report
of the German economic commission charged with the study of the
effect of the conditions of peace on the situation of the ...
53. Germany's exports of sugar in 19 13 amounted to 1,110,0 73 tons
of the value of £ 13, 094 ,30 0, of which 838 ,5 83 tons were exported...
... equal to the difference between the annual production before
the war of the coal-mines of the Nord and Pas de Calais,
destroyed as a result of the war, and the production of the mines
of the same ... lapse, nevertheless, in the event
of the coal districts of Upper Silesia being taken from Germany
in the final settlement consequent on the plebiscite....
... apparent in the attitude of
the council of the Allies at Paris towards the present government
of Germany. A victory of Spartacism in Germany might well be the
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE ... resources which they would devote to
the furtherance of policies in repugnance to which, in spite of
the President's failure to assert either the mi...