What do we do with a country like Germany? .....John Maynard Keynes ..... The Economic Consequences of the Peace ... on the wireless now

Now this was one I enjoyed.

Dignitaries gathering in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, 1919

It is is the latest in the Radio 4 series, In Our Time, and featured the book The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes in 1919 and reflected on the peace settlement after the Great War.

"In an extended version of the broadcast programme, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential book John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1919 after he resigned in protest from his role at the Paris Peace Conference. 

There the victors of World War One were deciding the fate of the defeated, especially Germany and Austria-Hungary, and Keynes wanted the world to know his view that the economic consequences would be disastrous for all. 

Soon Germany used his book to support their claim that the Treaty was grossly unfair, a sentiment that fed into British appeasement in the 1930s and has since prompted debate over whether Keynes had only warned of disaster or somehow contributed to it.

With, Margaret MacMillan, Emeritus Professor of International History at the University of Oxford, Michael Cox, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Founding Director of LSE IDEAS, and, Patricia Clavin, Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford

Producer: Simon Tillotson"*

Pictures; Dignitaries gathering in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, France, to sign the Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919.

*The Economic Consequences of the Peace, In Our Time, Radio 4,  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qtpf