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What role did Keynes play in the Second World War?
During the Second World War, Keynes argued in How to Pay for the War, that the war effort should be largely financed by higher taxation and especially by compulsory saving
What position did John Maynard Keynes hold?
In September 1941 Keynes was proposed to fill a vacancy in the Court of Directors of the Bank of England, and subsequently carried out a full term from April.
Was John Maynard Keynes instrumental in helping the British government pay for the Second World War?
Keynes was heavily involved, as leader of the British delegation and chairman of the World Bank commission, in the mid-1944 negotiations that established the Bretton Woods system.
What method did John Maynard Keynes use to pay for the Second World War?
He proposed the creation of a common world unit of currency, the bancor, and new global institutions – a world central bank and the International Clearing Union.
Was he praised for John Maynard Keynes' work during the Second World War?
According to the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, in the rebound of the economy from wartime spending, one could not have had a better demonstration of the Keynesian ideas.“
Was John Maynard Keynes appointed to a special position?
In June 1942, Keynes was rewarded for his service with a hereditary peerage in the King's Birthday Honours.

Question: Is there anything interesting about his role in the Second World War?
Self-contained rewrite: Is there anything interesting about John Maynard Keynes' role in the Second World War other than being heavily involved in establishing the Bretton Woods system, being praised, and receiving hereditary peerage?