Such proposals would have been practicable.

There is nothing in them quixotic or Utopian.

And they would have opened up for Europe some prospect of financial stability and reconstruction.
The further elaboration of these ideas, however, must be left to Chapter VII., and we must return to Paris.

I have described the entanglements which Mr.Lloyd George took with him.

The position of the Finance Ministers of the other Allies was even worse.