Burried treasure.(John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom)

John Maynard Keynes died on Easter Sunday, April 21, 1946. He was only sixty-two. His mind had always been indomitable -- "He never dimmed his headlights," Kenneth Clark, the art historian, once complained -- but his body was easily subdued. He was susceptible to illness all his life, and in 1937 he was found to have bacterial endocarditis, an infection of the heart valves, which, in the days before antibiotics, was incurable. The disease made him prone to exhaustion and collapse, and he had to take precautions to avoid straining his heart. Flying was especially dangerous. But in 1940 he accepted an unpaid position as an adviser to the British Treasury. In that capacity, ...