ALL-IN CONTROVERSY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 8

ALL-IN CONTROVERSY

LI.OVII CKO RUE AND KEYNES [By Air Mail—Own Correspondent! LONDON, 10th November. Already Mr Lloyd George’s first vol. ume on the* Peace 'lreaties lias evoked a stinging rejoinder. In this volume he conveys the impression that Professor J. M. strong support to the piling up of German reparations. Professor Keynes is debar*-, ed, as an ex-civil servant, from quoting the actual terms of the secret memorandum, a quotation from which Mr Lloyd George makes the basis of this statement. But what he can and does assert is that the document in question, pie pared hy Professor W. J. Ashley «id himself early in 1916, made no recommendations of any kind for a German indemnity, ami was, moreover, based throughout on the assumption that this country would make no reparation claim. Their report was limited to the specific* issue of the probable effect of such pay nieut, not to this country, but to Franca and Belgium. “It was indeed a bold, though scarcely a bright, idea on the part of Mr Lloyd George,” comments Professor Keynes, ‘to al tempt to represent my irdluence as haxirtg been the op|>osite of wtiat lie knows it to ha\e been.”