Lords of Finance

155 Time will run back: John Milton quote from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 258.

165 In the latter half of 1919: Moggridge, Maynard Keynes, 349-50.

166 “disliked being in the country”: Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, 364.

166 “ovary”: Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 211.

166 “tentative almost”: Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, 339-40.

167 “London’s position”: Keynes, “Memorandum Against the Suspension of Gold,” August 3, 1914, in Collected Writings, 16: 7-15.

167 “humbly and without permission”: Keynes, Collected Writing: A Tract, 4: xv.

167 “conservative bankers”: Keynes, Collected Writings: A Tract, 4: 56.

168 “the allegiance of”: Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, 339-40.

168 “For the moment”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, January 30, 1924.

169 “the most vindictive man”: Kynaston, The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 65.

169 “He is a brilliant”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, February 6, 1920.

170 “Keynes’s little book”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, January 4, 1924.

170 Having jettisoned : Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History, 240.

172 “I do not intend”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, January 30, 1924.

172 “A dollar standard”: Keynes, Collected Writing: A Tract, 4: 155.

173 “they might come”: Walworth, Woodrow Wilson, 320, n. 12.

173 Not surprisingly, the Board: Norris, Ended Episodes, 204.

173 “a body of startling incompetence”: Galbraith, The Great Crash, 32.

173 “utterly devoid of global”: Hoover, Memoirs, 9.

174 From Memphis, Tennessee: Interviews with Roy Young and Chester Morrill, Committee on the History of the Federal Reserve System, Washington: Brookings Institution, 1954-55.

174 From Iowa came: Interviews with George Harrison, Leslie Rounds, Roy Young, and Chester Morrill, Committee on the History of the Federal Reserve System, Washington: Brookings Institution, 1954-55.

175 “I’ll see them damned”: Letter from Strong to J. H. Case, April 21, 1923, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 228.

176 In the process: Interview with Leslie Rounds, Committee on the History of the Federal Reserve System, Washington: Brookings Institution, 1954-55.

176 “worshipped”: Interview with Jay Crane, Committee on the History of the Federal Reserve System, Washington: Brookings Institution, 1954-55.

10: A BRIDGE BETWEEN CHAOS AND HOPE

179 At 10:00 p.m. on November 8 1923: Stresemann, Diaries, Letters and Papers, 199.

180 On November 5: “Berlin Food Rioters Attack and Beat Jews.” New York Times, November 6, 1923; “Berlin Now Shivering in Sudden Cold Wave,” New York Times, November 8, 1923; Feldman, The Great Disorder, 780.

181 “Babylon of the world” “A kind of madness”: Zweig, The World of Yesterday, 238.

181 “German Chicago”: Large, Berlin, 48.