The Archive · 1921

German Readings of History

Mr. Lloyd George dismissed the difficulty of paying beyond the frontiers as a surmountable currency question. The Premier emphasized the fact that Dr. von linons refused to accept respon, sibility for the war, (which was the basis of the Treaty), but appealed to history to revise the sentence. Mr. Lloyd George suspected, with some uneasiness, that Germany intended that, in this regard, history should begin five years hence. The Allies, he said, could not discuss that basis.

Unless Germany were prepared 10 act on a fundamental realization of her responsibility, it was impossible to discover an arrangement calculated to produce an atmosphere of confidence and goodwill, which was essential to the peace of Europe.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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