Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General introduction
- Editorial note
- PART I
- 1 FINANCE AND INVESTMENT 1922–1923
- 2 POPULATION, PROTECTION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- 3 MONETARY REFORM AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- 4 THE RETURN TO GOLD AND FOREIGN LENDING
- 5 THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MR CHURCHILL
- PART II
- Appendix
- List of Documents Reproduced
- Index
1 - FINANCE AND INVESTMENT 1922–1923
from PART I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General introduction
- Editorial note
- PART I
- 1 FINANCE AND INVESTMENT 1922–1923
- 2 POPULATION, PROTECTION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- 3 MONETARY REFORM AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- 4 THE RETURN TO GOLD AND FOREIGN LENDING
- 5 THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MR CHURCHILL
- PART II
- Appendix
- List of Documents Reproduced
- Index
Summary
Although domestic events and policies absorbed some of Keynes's attention during 1920–2, international affairs, most notably the working out of the peace treaties and post-war reconstruction, absorbed most of the time and energy he devoted to public affairs. From late 1922 onwards, however, the focus of his interests began to shift more towards Britain and her problems.
An indication of this shift in focus came with the fall of Lloyd George's Coalition Government, in the midst of talk of an election campaign, following the meeting of Conservative members of Parliament at the Carlton Club on 19 October 1922, and Bonar Law's succession as Prime Minister. Two days after Law assumed office, Keynes spoke to the 95 Club, a Liberal society, in Manchester.
Notes for a speech at the 95 Club, Manchester, 25 October 1922
I believe in the depth and reality of the great traditional divisions between parties,—that they depend on deep principles which are forever reappearing in changing circumstances.
I therefore welcome it with profound relief that the confusions which perhaps inevitably followed the suspension of political controversy during the war have been brought suddenly to an end; and that Liberals can again stand together as Liberals determined to make prevail sooner or later the principles of wise government.
But eight years have passed since we were in this position. Other preoccupations have overwhelmed us. We need therefore a greater intellectual effort than usual to get our principles clearly embodied in a programme.
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- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes , pp. 1 - 118Publisher: Royal Economic SocietyPrint publication year: 1978