Amazing! And that was without looking up the URLs too!
Shares are on the way. BTW, how is that second mars probe doing?
Peace Dollars
socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca
Of which the temporarly relevant part is here.
But these secular problems are such as no age is free from.
They are of an altogether different order from those which may
afflict the peoples of Central Europe. Those readers who, chiefly
mindful of the British conditions with which they are familiar,
are apt to indulge their optimism, and still more those whose
immediate environment is American, must cast their minds to
Russia, Turkey, Hungary, or Austria, where the most dreadful
material evils which men can suffer -- famine, cold, disease,
war, murder, and anarchy -- are an actual present experience, if
they are to apprehend the character of the misfortunes against
the further extension of which it must surely be our duty to seek
the remedy, if there is one.
What then is to be done? The tentative suggestions of this
chapter may appear to the reader inadequate. But the opportunity
was missed at Paris during the six months which followed the
armistice, and nothing we can do now can repair the mischief
wrought at that time. Great privation and great risks to society
have become unavoidable. All that is now open to us is to
redirect, so far as lies in our power, the fundamental economic
tendencies which underlie the events of the hour, so that they
promote the re-establishment of prosperity and order, instead of
leading us deeper into misfortune.
We must first escape from the atmosphere and the methods of
Paris. Those who controlled the conference may bow before the
gusts of popular opinion, but they will never lead us out of our
troubles. It is hardly to be supposed that the Council of Four
can retrace their steps, even if they wished to do so. The
replacement of the existing governments of Europe is, therefore,
an almost indispensable preliminary.
I propose then to discuss a programme, for those who believe
that the Peace of Versailles cannot stand, under the following
heads:
I. The revision of the treaty.
II. The settlement of inter-Ally indebtedness.
III. An international loan and the reform of the currency.
IV. The relations of Central Europe to Russia.
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