Abstract

Versailles

The article presents information on the book "The Carthaginian Peace, or the Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes," by Etienne Mantoux. This book was completed in the summer of 1944, the year one Before the Atomic Bomb. Its author was killed on active duty in Austria in April, 1945, at the age of thirty-two. Lord Keynes, whose treatise on "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" is the subject of Mantoux's critique, died in. the spring of 1946. Because of these facts Mantoux's book assumed more of a historical than a contemporary interest even before its date of publication. Nevertheless, it is important. It is an intelligent, factual, and illuminating appraisal of the Treaty of Versailles, and of Keynes's attack upon it, in the light of subsequent events.