He made three main points: Germany didn’t have the capacity to pay were it to regain anything like a normal standard of living; any attempt to force it to reduce its standard of living would produce revolution; and to the extent that Germany was able to increase its exports to pay reparations, this would be at the expense of the recipients’ exports.
Habló de tres aspectos principales: Alemania no tenía la capacidad de pagar ni siquiera para recuperar un nivel de vida normal; cualquier intento de obligarla a reducir su nivel de vida produciría una revolución; y en la medida en que Alemania pudiera aumentar sus exportaciones para pagar las reparaciones, lo haría a costa de las exportaciones de los acreedores.