114 “The battle is lost”: Keynes, “Letter to David Lloyd George,” June 5, 1919, in Collected Writings, 16: 469.
115 “dry in soul”: Keynes, Collected Writings: The Economic Consequences, 2: 20.
115 “his thought and his temperament”: Keynes, Collected Writings: The Economic Consequences, 2: 26.
115 “his mind . . . slow”: Keynes, Collected Writings: The Economic Consequences, 2: 27.
115 “with six or seven senses”: Keynes, Collected Writings: The Economic Consequences, 2: 26.
115 “rooted in nothing”: Keynes, “Lloyd George,” in Collected Writings, 10: 23-24.
115 “civilization under threat,” “men driven by”: Keynes, Collected Writings: The Economic Consequences, 2: 144.
116 “ought to have been”: Trachtenberg, Reparation in World Politics, 94.
116 “is to us the most important”: Schuker, End of French Predominance in Europe, 17.
117 “la politique des casinos”: Steiner, The Lights That Failed, 183.
117 “As far as I am concerned”: Howe, A World History, 152.
117 “France could not decide”: Garratt, What Has Happened, 161.
117 “vainglorious, quarrelsome”: Carlyle, 1870 letter to the Times quoted in Wilson, the Victorians , 345.
117 “the gratification of private”: Schuker, End of French Predominance in Europe, 17.
117 “I can’t bear him”: Adamthwaite, Grandeur and Misery, 75.
117 “uneasy vanity”: Collier, Germany and the Germans, 470.
118 The Germans responded: Martin, France and the Après Guerre, 75.
120 “Nothing like this”: Keynes, “Speculation in the Mark and Germany’s Balances Abroad,” in Manchester Guardian Commercial, September 28, 1922, in Collected Writings, 18: 49-50.
120 A visitor in the late 1920s: Kindleberger, A Financial History, 310-11.
120 “In the whole course”: d’Abernon, The Diary of an Ambassador, 2: 124.
121 “133 printing works”: Schacht, The Stabilization of the Mark, 105.
121 Basic necessities: “Berlin Now Shivering in Sudden Cold Wave,” New York Times, November 8, 1923.
122 German physicians: “Cipher Stroke a New Disease for Germans Figuring Marks.” New York Times, December 7, 1923.
122 “For a salary”: Cowley, Exile’s Return, 142.
123 “How wild anarchic”: Zweig, The World of Yesterday, 301.
124 During those days of violence: Habedank, Die Reichsbank, 34.
125 “whether one wished”: Warburg Archives, Jahresbericht 1923, 43, quoted in Ferguson, Paper and Iron, 9.
126 “The Reichsbank today”: Ferguson, When Money Dies, 169.
127 “No-one could anticipate”: D’Abernon communication to Foreign Office, quoted in Ferguson, When Money Dies, 169.
127 “It appears almost impossible”: d’Abernon, The Diary of an Ambassador, 2: 240.