Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-qs9v7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-11T12:22:16.711Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

3 - REPARATIONS, SEPTEMBER 1941–DECEMBER 1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2012

John Maynard Keynes
Edited by
Elizabeth Johnson  and
Donald Moggridge
Get access

Summary

Although he had raised the matter in the first draft of his ‘Proposals to Counter the German “New Order”’, Keynes did not take up the question of the post-war treatment of Germany for almost another year. Then a conversation with Dr Beyen of the Netherlands restimulated his interest and he minuted Lord Catto and others in the Treasury.

To LORD CATTO AND OTHERS, 19 September 1941

EUROPEAN REPARATIONS

I had a visit a few days ago from Dr Beyen, who told me that his Government were giving increasing thought to the question of reparations from Germany in relation to post-war reconstruction. The Dutch Government are evidently a little anxious lest this issue should be prejudiced by some bold statement by the President and the Prime Minister, after some such occasion as the Atlantic Conference, declaring that there shall be no reparations of any sort or kind. They do not in the least contemplate anything like what happened after the last war. Quite the contrary. But the line to be drawn between reparations and restitution is not a very clear one. They suggest that the whole matter needs careful consideration at not too late a date. They would like to be assured that we are giving some thought to it and that no premature decision will be reached without their having an opportunity to express their views.

Type
Chapter
Information
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes , pp. 328 - 401
Publisher: Royal Economic Society
Print publication year: 1978

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×