The Economic Consequences of the PeaceSimon Publications, Incorporated, 1920 - 298 páginas A sever economic critique of the 1920 Treaty of Versailles written by the famous economist, who was a member of the British peace delegation until he quit with disgust. |
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Allied and Associated Allied Governments allowed Alsace-Lorraine America amount Annex annual Armistice Article Associated Powers Austria Austria-Hungary bearer bonds Belgian Belgium believe Britain British Bulgaria capacity to pay capital ceded cent civilian claims clauses Clemenceau coal Conference cost currency damage debt demand economic effect enemy estimate Europe European excess exchange exports figure force foreign Fourteen Points France French frontiers future German Government German nationals Germany Germany's capacity gold Hungary imports increase indemnity industrial interest investments Italy labor League of Nations less liability loans loss material ment millions nomic output Paris payment Peace Poland population possible pre-war present Treaty President President's Prime Minister production provisions Reichsbank Reparation Chapter Reparation Commission representatives Rhine Russia Saar securities Serbia substantial supplies surplus surrendered territory tion tons trade United Kingdom Upper Silesia wealth whole
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Página 62 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Página 258 - Treaty, decisions at any meeting of the Assembly or of the Council shall require the agreement of all the Members of the League represented at the meeting.
Página 53 - The Allied and Associated Governments, however, require, and Germany undertakes, that she will make compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property...
Página 259 - The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
Página 63 - First, the impartial justice meted out must involve no discrimination between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just.
Página 152 - The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
Página 63 - Third, there can be no leagues or alliances or special covenants and understandings within the general and common family of the League of Nations; Fourth, and more specifically, there can be no special, selfish economic combinations within the League and no employment of any form of economic boycott or exclusion except as the power of economic penalty by exclusion from the markets of the world may be vested in the League of Nations itself as a means of discipline and control...
Página 218 - In case either during the occupation or after the expiration of the fifteen years referred to above the Reparation Commission finds that Germany refuses to observe the whole or part of her obligations under the present Treaty with regard to reparation, the whole or part of the areas specified in Article 429 will be re-occupied immediately by the Allied and Associated forces.
Página 63 - Third, every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not as a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival states...
Página 152 - The Allied and Associated Governments recognize that the resources of Germany are not adequate, after taking into account permanent diminutions of such resources which will result from other provisions of the present Treaty, to make complete reparation for all such loss and damage.