204 On January 14: “La Foire aux Devises,” Le Quotidien, March 12, 1924, cited in Schuker, End of French Predominance, 89.
204 Prime Minister Poincaré declared: Jeanneney, François de Wendel, 187-88.
204 “assist in bringing France”: “The Franc Fighting for Its Life,” The Literary Digest, March 22, 1924.
204 “Each time the franc loses”: Keynes, Collected Writing: A Tract, 4: xvi-xvii
205 “stool of repentance”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 208.
206 “His pride is equaled”: Dawes, A Journal of Reparations, 54.
206 “remarkable revelation”: Dawes, A Journal of Reparations, 54.
209 “It looks to me”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, January 30, 1924.
210 “six main powers”: Ziegler, The Sixth Great Power, 1.
210 One story was that the family: Ferguson, The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets, 95-98.
210 “undertaken by any European”: Hobson, Imperialism, 64.
211 The son of an austere Methodist: “Lamont, Thomas William,” in Current Biography, 1940, 476.
213 “until the French are out”: Schuker, End of French Predominance, 215.
213 “swarming, gesticulating”: Saint-Aulaire, Confessions, 718, quoted in Schuker, End of French Predominance, 299.
214 “Europe shall not,” “America’s only purpose,”
214 “In the lean years”: Edwin L. James, “French Condemn Our Role in London,” New York Times, July 26, 1924, and “The ‘Money Devil’ Mixes in the Reparations Row,” The Literary Digest, August 9, 1924.
215 “We cannot accept”: Klein, Road to Disaster, 248.
216 “The United States lends money:” Keynes, “The Progress o
f the Dawes Scheme,” in The Nation and the Athenaeum, September 11, 1926, in Collected Writings, 18: 281.
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217 “I never knew a man”: Greene, The Quiet American, 72.
217 “in the full sunshine”: Graves and Hodges, The Long Weekend, 102.
217 Regent Street had been made over: “England Not Merry Under Labor’s Rule,” New York Times, June 8, 1924.
217 There was a new freedom: Graves and Hodges, The Long Weekend, 108-110.
219 “While England is financially sound”: Sisley, Huddelston. “Personalities and Politics in France,” Atlantic Monthly, January 1925, 117.
221 “You know how controversial”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, October 16, 1924.
221 “hand over to Germany”: Notes on discussion with Walter Leaf, June 13, 1924. Bank of England quoted in Kynaston, The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 109.
221 “rather far behind”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, July 9, 1924.
222 “There never was a Churchill”: Quoted in Wilson, The Victorians, 485.
222 “how anybody can put their”: Letter from William Bridgeman to his wife, quoted in Manchester, The Last Lion, 785.