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production of coal falling to Poland , and 36 per centto Germany . 1

The figure of 100,000,000 tons, given in TheEconomic Consequences of the Peace for the net German production {i.e. deducting consumption at the minesthemselves) in the near future excluding Upper Silesia ,should, therefore, be replaced by the figure of (say)115,000,000 tons, including such part of Upper Silesia as Germany is now to retain.

2.1 beg leave to correct a misleading passage in afootnote to p. 79 of The Economic Consequences of thePeace. I there spoke of " Poland 's pre-war annualdemand " for coal, where I should have said " pre-war Poland 's pre-war annual demand." The mistakewas not material, as I allowed for Germany 's dimin-ished requirements for coal, due to loss of territory,in the body of the text. But I confess that thefootnote, as published, might be deemed misleading.At the same time it is, I think, a tribute to the generalaccuracy of The Economic Consequences that partisancritics should have fastened so greedily on the omissionof the word " pre-war " before the word " Poland "in the footnote in question. Quite a considerableliterature has grown up round it. The Polish Diet

1 The same authority estimates that 85-6 of Upper Silesia' s zinc oreproduction and all the zinc smelting works fall to Poland. This is of someimportance, since before the war Upper Silesia was responsible for 17 percent of the total world production of zinc. Of the iron and steel productionof the area 63 per cent falls to Poland. I am not in a position to check anyof these figures. Some authorities ascribe a higher proportion of the coalto Poland.