[A] The most absurd perhaps was the clause, appearing in all the Peace
Treaties, which made ‘reparations’ a first charge on all the assets of
the defeated countries. This, of course, completely destroyed their
credit, and incapacitated them from raising a loan, forcing them to
have recourse to progressive inflation, and so into bankruptcy.
[B] This does _not_ mean, of course, that there are no Christians
in the Churches, but only that they are not in control of these
institutions.
[C] _Icarus_, p. 49.
[D] cf. _Daedalus_, p. 34; _Icarus_, p. 54.