“If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.”

—  John Maynard Keynes, book The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VII, Section 1, p. 268

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