“The present work meets a well-defined want in that it gives trustworthy and up-to-date technical methods. It can be recommended to every industrial chemist.”
+ Nature 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 180w
KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD. Economic consequences of the peace. *$2.50 (3½c) Harcourt 330.94
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As chief representative of the British treasury at the peace conference and member of the Supreme economic council of the allied and associated powers, the author can be considered an authority on his chosen subject. In effect the book is a severe stricture on the peace conference’s failure in its task to “satisfy justice” and to “re-establish life and to heal wounds.” It points out both the injustice and the impracticability of the terms of the peace treaty and how wide-spread economic ruin in all countries will be the result of any attempt to carry them out. “The treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the defeated central empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it provide in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies themselves. On the contrary ... men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.” The contents are: Europe before the war; The conference; The treaty; Reparation; Europe after the treaty; Remedies.
“The prime importance of the work consists in its vivid sense of the growing moral and economic solidarity of the world, and particularly of Europe and its detailed search for a sound economic basis on which a peace settlement can really be made, in view of that solidarity.” C. J. Bushnell
+ Am J Soc 26:238 S ’20 640w
“This is a brilliant, penetrating, stimulating, book; but it is also unbalanced, inconclusive, and unconvincing.” F: A. Ogg