Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes. Richard Davenport-Hines
this Trèves meeting, German negotiators demanded the liberty to use gold, which the victors had earmarked for reparation payments, to buy food before relinquishing their mercantile fleet. In March, at Spa, as negotiators with incompatible instructions skirmished over victualling Germany and receiving the surrendered ships, the prospect of German starvation loomed. Keynes retained every ounce of the Apostle creed that, although corruption and cruelty abounded in the world, truth, beauty and justice were attainable by imaginative sympathy. As a loyal Apostle, who sanctified the redemptive power of personal relations, he achieved moments of perceptive intimacy and collusive trust during the negotiations with unlikely men. One such moment happened at Spa with Carl Melchior, the Hamburg banker.
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