Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General introduction
- Note to the reader
- Part I Reactions to ‘The Economic Consequences of the Peace’ (1919–1924)
- 1 Reaction in England
- 2 Reaction in the United States
- 3 Second Thoughts on President Wilson
- 4 More American Reactions
- 5 What Really Happened at Paris
- Part II Keynes and ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ Opinion (1919–1920)
- Part III Towards ‘A Revision of the Treaty’ (1921)
- Part IV ‘A Revision’ Reviewed (1922–1924)
- Part V ‘Reconstruction in Europe’ (1921–1923)
- List of Documents Reproduced
- Index
3 - Second Thoughts on President Wilson
from Part I - Reactions to ‘The Economic Consequences of the Peace’ (1919–1924)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General introduction
- Note to the reader
- Part I Reactions to ‘The Economic Consequences of the Peace’ (1919–1924)
- 1 Reaction in England
- 2 Reaction in the United States
- 3 Second Thoughts on President Wilson
- 4 More American Reactions
- 5 What Really Happened at Paris
- Part II Keynes and ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ Opinion (1919–1920)
- Part III Towards ‘A Revision of the Treaty’ (1921)
- Part IV ‘A Revision’ Reviewed (1922–1924)
- Part V ‘Reconstruction in Europe’ (1921–1923)
- List of Documents Reproduced
- Index
Summary
In May 1920 Keynes wrote an article for Everybody's Magazine, a popular American monthly, in which he re-stated his opinions on the peace and included his reconsidered attitude towards the President. Asked by the managing editor what illustrations he would like for the article, Keynes wrote that he would prefer none: ‘their presence would, I think, detract from the character which I intend to give to the article’ (11 May 1920).
From Everybody's Magazine, September 1920
THE PEACE OF VERSAILLES
About six months have now passed by since I published a book entitled The Economic Consequences of the Peace. In this period the book has been published in the principal languages of the world and it has been reviewed in many hundreds of journals. The best and the worst has been said of me. But, at any rate, my facts and arguments have been open to the examination of expert critics everywhere; and my conclusions have had to justify themselves before the bar of the educated opinion of the whole world in a manner never required of the half-secret deliberations of Paris.
I am now invited briefly to restate the leading points of my contention and to add a few reflections which the course of events, since I wrote my book, may have suggested. But the space at my disposal is brief, and I must refer to the book itself those readers who are interested in the evidence and arguments in detail.
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- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes , pp. 51 - 80Publisher: Royal Economic SocietyPrint publication year: 1978