Thêm con số này ước tính theo người đứng đầu khác, chúng tôi có một yêu cầu bồi thường tổng số chống lại Đức £ 8,000 triệu (33) Tôi tin rằng con số này là hoàn toàn đủ cao, và kết quả thực tế có thể giảm phần nào ngắn của nó. (34 *) trong phần tiếp theo của chương này, | THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE 79 potash field in the territory which has been restored to her will not welcome a great stimulation of the German exports of this material. An examination of the import list shows that are raw materials and food. The chief items of the former class namely cotton wool copper hides iron ore furs silk rubber and tin could not be much reduced without reacting on the export trade and might have to be increased if the export trade was to be increased. Imports of food namely wheat barley coffee eggs rice maize and the like present a different problem. It is unlikely that apart from certain comforts the consumption of food by the German labouring classes before the war was in excess of what was required for maximum efficiency indeed it probably fell short of that amount. Any substantial decrease in the imports of food would therefore react on the efficiency of the industrial population and consequently on the volume of surplus exports which they could be forced to produce. It is hardly possible to insist on a greatly increased productivity of German industry if the workmen are to be underfed. But this may not be equally true of barley coffee eggs and tobacco. If it were possible to enforce a régime in which for the future no German drank beer or coffee or smoked any tobacco a substantial saving could be effected. Otherwise there seems little room for any significant reduction. The following analysis of German exports and imports according to destination and origin is also relevant. From this it appears that of Germany s exports in 1913 18 went to the British empire 17 to France Italy and Belgium 10 to Russia and Roumania and 7 to the United States that is to say more than half of the exports found their market in the countries of the Entente nations. Of the balance 12 went to Austria-Hungary Turkey and Bulgaria and 35 elsewhere. Unless therefore the present Allies are prepared to encourage the importation of German products a .
