Novissima verba: last words 1920

발행: 1921년

분량: 251페이지

출처: archive.org

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Νexi, the Englisti used is lightly archate, o rutheros the priniitive alia forna like a child 's tale. I hiis, the effect of the uniisual assonanee, OUPled with the antiquate forni, produces an impression offustaine old-wori chant, intende solet to elieard notri be read. his is essentia to the spirito the poem-whicli neve was anything ut a Chanson a balla for the voice-no the ye. O prose an give the ring of the verse-with iis sense of speed an sury, and os alitiost delirious passion hi libelleves an eXtrava ganee Again no regula modern verse an pietur the loOd-lus an savager Whichwere et to e heroisin an piet eight centuries ago. In ear the strange ussonanee-rhyme along vitii the old-Englisti phrasin come eare to theorigina than et ther prose or verse could attain. Sobtake the experiment tot a successa and Padvis allwho care o medieva histor an for primitive piost stud the origina fidei fide illi Captain Scott- Moneriest' translation. As a spe imen at nee o succes an fallure Ι

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No v I have efore me three version in modern

elea that the ne v verse translation is quitem accurateas these, and gives a far true sense of the rude litt

lex o the fame age, or beller, O the opposite page of the translation. I am notioin to criticise delatis; ut there are two ords, the translation t

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Εven in a charge of t vent thousan knighis, theysticito the adies pace, and neve brea into a gallOP.

Τhe deam Charies at the head of 100, 000 knighis' cantering, of the masse chivalr o France chargin with amyde Par canter o the Paynim isto much to bear. Assonanee suit the wil primitive wing of the ancient Chant. But et assonane neve be introduce into Englisti verse. t is ulteri inapplicabiet ou longue, hieli multiphes an sound it finalconsonants-whils in French these consonant are

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MARCH

over Europe, the immediat nee is an ossiciat declarationi Britain that we do notno exae the sui mensure of the reaiy-sO- alledo Peaee. It is, a Psaid las monili, impossibie, ruinous, sulcidat.' When Pso deseribed it Phad notseen r. eynes bookin iis Economic Consequences Maemillan, 14th thousand 1920). The wori hadali eady condemned the reat as an elaborat schemet erusti Germany and Austria forin hole generation, to hiel the fiere passion of the reneli Ministerani the Mosaic judgment of the America Presidentha made iis a party. Wilson an Clemeneeau regone Pand the dominant part whicli Wilson held whenhe eam to Europe in 1918 hasio passeda Britain. France and Italy ma strugglerio ge the vast sumsand the rich and the olaim rom Germany and

Austria. ut e can, and we must, revis the Treaty-or chaos ait for iis, at home an abroad.

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Μr Keynes book has no been published many monilis, and no sor os meia repi loci has beenissued. Nothin but the angry ries of bureaveratS has been heard. o sueti crushin indietinent os aureat et os internationa poscy, no Such reVelation of the futilit os diplomat has ver been made. In the ieethis it musteri analysis the litera executiono the reat is ut of the question, sor it ould

not be fulfilled an to tal more bout them is tostarve Europe an ruin urseives It is ne of the canon o an unlimite democracy populus ultdecip et decipiatur. I Aristides illiso humourthei passions , he must retire into Xile. have caretuli studied r. Keynes book, and Ιentiret agree withiis main conclusions. o sarras itis a persona criticism o minister an a political

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the delatis of his economi estimates and his propoSed ' remedies. Whateve ma he his miscalculationsor his indiscretions , he has made out an overWhelmingoas against the reat ascit stands-on it economicside and the scalem iis reparations. mare not lihelyto gre to r. eynes doctrine that the Germansean in iis to the exae language of r. Wilson 's

cantile marine is extravagant, ii German trade is to exist at all. Unlescit does, no paymenis cante made. 23 o exclude German froni aliisverseas pΟSSeSSionSand to confiscat ali properi os Germans therein is a further destruetioni German trade. 3 The Xpropriationis German private properi is a vindictive an immora provision and when it is extende tonon-Germandands, and even to thos of neutruis, thewhole scheme is ludicrous by iis impossibility, as ellas insaniolis in iis spite. The complicated attemptrio mali Germany an ulla in internationa trade

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econOinieatly utside the pale o civilised nations-is litti more than a grini oke. As to the provisos abolit coat an metui, hiis thesavage destruetioni mines by the deleate Germans musti repatred, this ought no tot carrie out illia violenee whioli,ould stisse German industries Andthe prolonge occupatio os uret German lands,especiali thos lyin far to the ast, illi a continuous oure os unrestrio Germany and of ris toth Allies. And the fame hold good of the aitway and rive transpori in German territories Again, the embargo On the union o German Austria illithe Empire is anton blindness. In therars place, the union is inevitabie, and in the nex place Without sueti union Vienna is a starvin dereliet. Writing vhilst verythin is stili in the aking, and the Leaque ithout . S. A. in suspende animation, waitin for artificia respiration, O shal saynothingio abolit territorial rearrangements. any of them re quit questionabie, and wil have to emodified Poland is a desperate Tuae. The strength of r. Keynes book, and theae tolli problem os Em ope, si in the scheme os reparation, as designed in the reaiy. It litera exactionwould deprive the populations o Europe inchidingour Wn, O the means os velihood. I ake nouitemptrio explain, ordo criticise the figures given by

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finandiu authoi ity. The wOrid nows that, after delaile examination, he ut as a tota reeoverable

than two thousand millions of pound in ne formirother. Perhaps, is he were ritin to-da instea oflast autumn he would notitit it igher than ne thousan million, and that without interest ver a long period For In pari, Pshouldae glud o hope that the Allies together uia receive even that redueed

scheme tot made by the Head of the Great Powers, and accepted by the democracies of Britain, America, and Frances Themiiswer is that it Was done in secret sessions the ea meaning were falsissed and whenthe Gargantuati reaino June 28th, 1919, as a last published non but professiona publicisis ver eadit through, and non but professionalieonomist could understan iis subile essedis . The thin Was a caseo cephalitis turgida Ura velle head. Wilsoncauulit the diseas froni ilhelmi and he improvedon it, illi the American way o going en times bellerthan nyone else H infeete France and thenuritish good sense succumbed. An in the ulla-baloo of the Peae celebrations realdaeis and imminentilanger vere hidden away and overtooked. e erehood vinked. Ianow that I was.

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stood by Germany that at eas by us the penal

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articles of reparation illio be parti relaxed undat any rate illi postponed. U. S. A. Whieli is out

of the game, retireditari, villio complain Norwill apan whieli has cynicali Watehed the sulcideo Europe. Is Frande insist on fuit payment, ii Italydestres both sides of the Adriati an par of Asia Minor the must tali their o v eourse Britain is notiound to helmi hem to ruin civili sation, hilst theauthor an potentia President of the Covenant is

turn to nother book o the realy and the League-Europe and the ea ue I utions by Charies Sarolea G. Bel and Sons 19193- masterlycriticism of the Versatiles setilementi one hocis a firmieliever in the de of the Covenant, butias madea thorough study of at the dimouities and danger it presents. r. Sarolea by birili a Belgian longsettied in Britain, and now Professor in the Universityos Edinburgh, sine of the best livin authorities in the languages, history, and diplomae of the

European Powers. His book serves as a colanterpartand supplemen to that of r. eynes for it deals larget with the territoria und nationa problem os the setilement, as r. Κeynes denis illi the economican reparation problems. The two book togethermake an unans verable case for the immediate revisiono the reat and for the consolidationi the visionaryLeague o Nations into a praetiea international

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