| King's/PP/JMK contains: |
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| <-- See earlier |
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| ET |
Early Treasury Department documents |
| T |
Treasury official 1915-19: war finance |
| PT |
Treasury official 1915-19: planning post-war reconstruction |
| RT |
Treasury official 1915-19: Paris Peace Conference |
| EC |
'Economic consequences of the peace' (1919) |
| FI |
International finance and German reparations 1919-23 |
| RP |
'Revision of the treaty' (1922) |
| IN |
'Method of index numbers' 1909 |
| TP |
'Treatise on probability' (1921) |
| MR |
'Tract on monetary reform' (1923) |
| TM |
'Treatise on money' (1930) |
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The Papers of John Maynard Keynes
| Title |
International finance and German reparations 1919-23 |
| Reference |
JMK/FI |
| Covering Dates |
1919–1932 |
| Extent and Medium |
Approximately 1.5 boxes; paper |
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| Content and context |
This series comprises documents representing J.M. Keynes role in shaping international finance and German reparations in the years after World War I. |
| Further information |
For newspaper and journal articles by J.M. Keynes and related editorial correspondence during this period, see JMK/A/20-3, JMK/GS/1 and JMK/NS/1. |
| King's/PP/JMK/FI contains: |
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1
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General correspondence.
40 items in envelope; paper. |
Oct. 1919-Dec. 1923 |
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2
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Correspondence with Carl Melchior, and related papers. Subjects covered include J.M. Keynes' publications and German reparations, Germany's economy and politics. Also include an autograph manuscript draft by J.M. Keynes of a letter to be sent from W. Cuno to A. Bonar Law [May 1923]; modern Carbon typescript copies and translations of correspondence between Melchior and Cuno in which extracts from J.M. Keynes' letters to Melchior were repeated, 1923; a modern xerox and translation of a memorandum by Melchior on his meetings with Jan Smuts, 27 and 28 October, dictated 2 November 1923; article by Melchior on his impressions of Moscow after a visit in 1927.
36 items in envelope; paper. |
Oct. 1919-Jan. 1932 |
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3
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Materials concerning the economic clauses of the peace treaty. Typescript draft, with autograph manuscript alterations, of a letter from J.M. Keynes on behalf of the Prime Minister to Presidents Wilson, Orlando and Clemenceau urging the rehabilitation of European credit and economic life, [1919]; carbon typed letter, signed, from J.M. Keynes to Lord Robert Cecil on planning cereal supplies from Europe, with an autograph manuscript postscript condemning the economic clauses of the Peace Treaty, 26 July 1919 and copy of 'Declaration by the Supreme Council of the Peace Conference on the economic conditions of the world' (HMSO, 1920).
3 items in envelope; paper. |
1919–1920 |
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4
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Agenda and report of a meeting of economists, civil servants and politicians at King's College, Cambridge. Materials from the conference set to discuss 'Economic conditions in Europe; economic effects of the Peace Treaty; economic repercussions of the Russian Question; international cooperation; currency policy and control of trade'. Among the participants were J.M. Keynes, B.P. Blackett, H.D. Henderson, J. A. Salter and E. Hilton Young.
1 item in envelope; paper. |
20 Dec. 1919–21 Dec. 1919 |
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5
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Papers relating to the meetings of international bankers in Amsterdam, October-November 1919, to discuss the problems of international credit. This file includes official reports of meetings; drafts of a memorial proposing an international loan; typescript memoranda by J.M. Keynes on the exchange value of the mark; certain commercial contracts between Germany and the USA; points of interpetation in the Reparation Chapter of the Peace Treaty, and the political and economic situation in Germany, all written 20 October 1919. It also includes typescript notes by J.M. Keynes on the meetings, 13-15 October and correspondence between J.M. Keynes and R.H. Brand, A. MacFadyean, J.A. Salter, J. Ter Meulen, G. Vissering and M. Warburg on the search for signatories to the memorial.
Creator: Various.
53 items in envelope; paper. |
Nov. 1919-Jan. 1920 |
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6
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'German reparation: plan for a final settlement'. An anonymous typescript. Contents suggest that it was written during the period between the Reparation Commission's assessment on 30 April and the Allies' ultimatum to Germany on 3 May 1921.
1 item in envelope; paper. |
May 1921 |
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7
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Research correspondence. This file comprises exchanges with R. Havenstein, R. Lob, J. Ter Meulen, G. Vissering and M. Wallenburg for J.M. Keynes' article 'Speculation in the mark and Germany's balances abroad', 29 September 1922.
Creator: Various.
14 items in envelope; paper. |
July 1922-Jan. 1923 |
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8
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Papers relating to the conference of international financial experts in Berlin, November 1922, to discuss stabilisation of the mark. This file comprises financial memoranda and statistics supplied by the German authorities, papers by individual members of the 'Committee of experts' consisting of E.J. Cassel, L. Dubois, J.W. Jenks, B. Kamenka and G. Vissering, and a formal statement of their findings, 7-8 November 1922.
Creator: Various.
50 items in envelope; paper. |
Apr. 1922-Jan. 1923 |
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9
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Successive schemes for a settlement of the reparations issue. This file contains documents drawn up by Sir John Bradbury, with a copy of his statement, as head of the British Delegation to the Reparation Commission, on the urgent situation created by a further devaluation of the mark, 6 October 1922.
Creator: Bradbury, Sir John.
6 items in envelope; paper. |
Oct. 1922-Dec. 1922 |
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10
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Carbon typescript plan by J.M. Keynes for a reparations settlement with Germany. A plan proposing a five year moratorium on payments and an alternative scheme of payments, sanctions and division of money received, possibly written for presentation to A. Bonar Law.
1 item in envelope; paper. |
23 Dec. 1922 |
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11
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Papers relating to J.M. Keynes' visit to Berlin, 1-4 June 1923 to review the German reply to Lord Curzon's reparations 'note' of 13 May. This file comprises autograph manuscript and typescript comments by J.M. Keynes on the first draft, 1 June and subsequent typescript drafts, 1 subtitled 'Annuitaten - plan', undated, with 2 English translations amended by J.M. Keynes.
3 items in envelope; paper. |
June 1923 |
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12
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Correspondence with Jan Smuts on the reparations issue. Correspondence containing a carbon typescript memorandum on the subject prepared for him by J.M. Keynes, 5 October 1923.
1 item in envelope; paper. |
Feb. 1923-Oct. 1923 |
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