Jan Christiaan Smuts, writing from the Versailles Peace Conference, 1919...: Poor Keynes often sits with me at night after a good dinner and we rail against the world and the coming flood. And I tell him this is the time for the Griqua prayer (the Lord to come himself and not send his Son, as this is not a time for children). And then we laugh, and behind the laughter is Hoover’s terrible picture of thirty million people who must die unless there is some great intervention