Re: Hitler and Keynes

[ACSLKS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx id <01HMURKLPQDC8Y6OH8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Thu, 09 Feb 1995 17:53:53 -0400 (EDT)]

> Barkley, Apparently you are right about my original message not getting out to
> pkt. Walther Fund succeeded Schacht after 1938. In 1940, Funk announced plans
> for a "new world order" after a German victory in World War II. The
> British propaganda minister came to Keynes with the Funk plan and said that we
> must answer this. Keynes liked the Funk plan, presumably because it got away
> from gold. I suspect it was bilateral rather than multilateral. At any rate,
> the first draft of the British version of the Bretton Woods agreement was the
> result. I have been unable to locate any translation of the Funk plan so
> perhaps some pkters might help me find it or translate same. The controversal
> part of Keynes's introduction from the German edition is: "This is one of the
> reasons which justify my calling my theory a General theory.  Since it is based
> on less narrow assumptions than the orthodox theory, it is also more easily
> adopted to a large area of different circumstances.  Although I have worked it
> out having the conditions in the Anglo-Saxon countries in view where a great
> deal of laissez-faire still prevails, it yet remains applicable to situations
> in which national leadership is more pronounced." These sentences have been
> excised by Moggidge since the original correspondence was destroyed duing the
> conflict. But Keynes ecognised that the Gemans wee thisty fo his theoy." Lynn
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Lynn:

I finally received you message, but as you see above, some of it was corrupted.

Lonnie Stevans