145 “Mr. Montagu Collet Norman”: “The Mission to America,” Times, December 27, 1922.
145 “singularly gifted”: Charles Addis diary quoted in Kynaston, The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 64.
145 “He never made jokes”: George Booth quoted in Kynaston, The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 66.
146 His unorthodox appearance: Kynaston, The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 64-66; “The Governor of the Bank
of England,” the Strand Magazine, April 1939.
146 At some point: “Along the Highways of Finance,” New York Times, September 4, 1932.
147 Take a typical incident: “Bank of England Head May Be in Berlin,” New York Times, March 18, 1923; and “Bank of England Governor Settles Problem in Berlin,” Christian Science Monitor, March 17, 1923; and “France Against Mediation in Ruhr by Outside Power,” Washington Post, March 17, 1923.
147 “Mr. Norman’s dislike”: Winston. Churchill, “Montagu Norman,” Sunday Pictorial, September 20, 1931.
148 “poseur”: Vansittart, The Mist Procession, 301.
148 “sensation of being”: Letter from Norman to Caroline Brown, quoted in Boyle, Montagu Norman , 140.
148 “secretive, egotistic”: Williams, A Pattern of Rulers, 205.
148 “a brilliant neurotic”: Boyle, Montagu Norman, 129-30.
149 “delighted in appearing,” “those of an old”: Templewood, Nine Troubled Years, 78.
149 Still an Edwardian: Worsthorne, Democracy Needs Aristocracy, 26-28.
149 “Only lately have the countries”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, March 22, 1922.
149 “Anything in the nature”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, July 14, 1922. “Dear Strongy”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, May 24, 1922.
150 “Dear Old Man”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, March 27, 1923.
150 “Dear old [sic] Monty”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, May 1, 1927.
150 “You are a dear”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, May 1, 1927.
150 “Dear Ben.”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, January 24, 1925.
151 they sounded like a couple of: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, April 2, 1927, and letters from Strong to Norman, March 25, 1927, and April 14, 1927.
151 “Let me beg you”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, September 15, 1921.
151 “what is happening”: Bank of England, letters from Norman to Strong, March 21. 1925, and February 26, 1927.
151 “To have a sympathetic person”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, February 15, 1927.
151 “the Civilization”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, December 18, 1921.
152 “The black spot of Europe”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, April 9, 1923.
152 “afflicted by the generous use”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, February 18, 1922.
152 In those days: “Finance as Recreation,” Gettysburg Times, November 19, 1928.
153 “The temptation”: Bank of England, letter from Strong to Norman, January 4, 1924.
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