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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Introduction
- Editorial Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction to New Edition by Donald Winch
- Notes on Further Reading
- Corrections to this Edition
- I SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS
- 1 THE COUNCIL OF FOUR, PARIS 1919
- 2 LLOYD GEORGE: A FRAGMENT
- 3 A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THREE
- 4 ANDREW BONAR LAW
- 5 HERBERT ASQUITH
- 6 EDWIN MONTAGU
- 7 ARTHUR BALFOUR
- 8 WINSTON CHURCHILL
- 9 REGINALD MCKENNA
- 10 THE GREAT VILLIERS CONNECTION
- 11 TROTSKY ON ENGLAND
- II LIVES OF ECONOMISTS
- III BRIEF SKETCHES
- IV HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S
- V TWO SCIENTISTS
- VI TWO MEMOIRS
- References
- Index of Names
2 - LLOYD GEORGE: A FRAGMENT
from I - SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Introduction
- Editorial Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction to New Edition by Donald Winch
- Notes on Further Reading
- Corrections to this Edition
- I SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS
- 1 THE COUNCIL OF FOUR, PARIS 1919
- 2 LLOYD GEORGE: A FRAGMENT
- 3 A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THREE
- 4 ANDREW BONAR LAW
- 5 HERBERT ASQUITH
- 6 EDWIN MONTAGU
- 7 ARTHUR BALFOUR
- 8 WINSTON CHURCHILL
- 9 REGINALD MCKENNA
- 10 THE GREAT VILLIERS CONNECTION
- 11 TROTSKY ON ENGLAND
- II LIVES OF ECONOMISTS
- III BRIEF SKETCHES
- IV HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S
- V TWO SCIENTISTS
- VI TWO MEMOIRS
- References
- Index of Names
Summary
I should prefer to end this chapter here. But the reader may ask, What part in the result did the British Prime Minister play? What share had England in the final responsibility? The answer to the second question is not clear-cut. And as to the first, who shall paint the chameleon, who can tether a broomstick? The character of Lloyd George is not yet rendered, and I do not aspire to the task.
The selfish, or, if you like, the legitimate interests of England did not, as it happened, conflict with the Fourteen Points as vitally as did those of France. The destruction of the fleet, the expropriation of the marine, the surrender of the colonies, the suzerainty of Mesopotamia—there was not much here for the President to strain at, even in the light of his professions, especially as England, whose diplomatic moderation as always was not hampered by the logical intransigency of the French mind, was ready to concede in point of form whatever might be asked. England did not desire the German fleet for herself, and its destruction was a phase of disarmament. The expropriation of the marine was a legitimate compensation, specifically provided for in the pre-Armistice conditions, for the lawless campaign of submarines which had been the express occasion of America's entering the war. Over the colonies and Mesopotamia England demanded no exclusive sovereignty, and they were covered by the Doctrine of Mandates under the League of Nations.
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- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes , pp. 20 - 26Publisher: Royal Economic SocietyPrint publication year: 1978