128 “old style Prussian,” “permanent order”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 161.
128 “hell’s kitchen”: Schacht. My First Seventy-six Years, 177.
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132 “The principal danger”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, November 22, 1918.
132 “help to rebuild”: “Wilson Stirs Audience,” New York Times, September 28, 1918.
133 “The Family”: Bacevich, “Family Matters” and “Bachelor as Guest Is Sole Occupant of Exclusive Club,” Washington Post, August 22. 1926.
134 “pallid career”: Phillips, Ventures in Diplomacy, 6, quoted in Bacevich, “Family Matters,” 406.
135 “constructive policy”: Letter from Strong to Leffingwell, July 31, 1919, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 144.
136 “in which [Sir Edward]”: Strong to James Brown, September 14, 1916, quoted in Roberts, “Benjamin Strong, the Federal Reserve.”
136 “that the Allies,” “been slight”: Letter from Strong to Leffingwell, July 25, 1919, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 142.
136 “their hearts to rule”: Letter from Strong to Leffingwell, July 31, 1919, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 143.
136 “In the useless slaughter”: Masterton, England After the War, 32-33.
137 “The consequences”: Steffens, Autobiography, 803.
138 “lack of leadership,” “people in authority”: Letter from Strong to Leffingwell, August 30, 1919, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 145-46.
138 “desert Europe,” “prolonged disorder”: Letter from Strong to Leffingwell, August 30, 1919, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 145-46.
139 “the most wonderful,” “the most gorgeous”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, March 1, 1920.
139 “Whenever you do come”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, December 3, 1920.
140 “makes the whole of Paris”: Nicolson, Peacemaking 1919, 330.
140 “top-hatted frock-coated”: Brendon, Eminent Edwardians, 115.
140 “Lord Balfour seems”: Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes, Baldwin, 133.
140 “In the Balfour Note”: Quoted in Rhodes, “The Image of Britain,” 196.
140 “Has America which but yesterday”: “Still Scolding America for Funding Bill,” New York Times, February 7, 1922.
140 “lay a tribute upon”: Garet, Garrett. “Shall Europe Pay Back Our Millions,” New York Times, November 26, 1922.
141 “to approach the discussion”: “British to Pay All, Ask a Square Deal, Debt Board Is Told”, New York Times, January 9, 1923.
142 “they seemed to understand”: Boyle, Montagu Norman, 156.
143 “merely sell wheat”: “Baldwin Says We Don’t Understand Situation on Debt,” New York Times, January 28, 1923.
143 “a hick”: Grigg, Prejudice and Judgment, 102.
143 “I should be the most cursed”: Blake, The Unknown Prime Minister, 492.
143 “in order to give them”: Keynes. “Letter to J. C. C. Davidson,” January 30, 1923, in Collected Writings, 8: 103.
144 As the decade went on: Edwin L. James, “Europe Scowls at Rich America,” New York Times, July 11, 1926; Frank H. Simonds, “Does Europe Hate the U.S. and Why?” American Review of Reviews, September 1926; “Uncle Shylock in Europe,” American Review of Reviews, January 1927.