236 “greatest achievement . . .”: Winston, Churchill. “Montagu Norman,” Sunday Pictorial, September 20, 1931.
237 “a signal triumph”: Times, April 29, 1925.
237 “the crowning achievement”: Economist, May 2, 1925.
237 “The proper object of dear money”: Keynes, “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” in Collected Writing: Essays in Persuasion, 9: 220.
237 “because he has no instinctive judgment”: Keynes, “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” in Collected Writing: Essays in Persuasion, 9: 212.
237 In 1927, he invited Keynes: Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour, 203.
238 “the victims,” “in the flesh [of] the fundamental”: Keynes, “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” in Collected Writing: Essays in Persuasion. 9: 223.
239 “the biggest blunder”: Moran, Winston Churchill, 303-304, quoted in Kynaston, The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 129.
239 “misled by the Governor”: Toye, Lloyd George and Churchill, 256.
239 “that man Skinner”: Grigg, Prejudice and Judgment, 193.
239 “to everyone’s surprise”: Amery, Diaries, 552, quoted in Kynaston, The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 129.
239 “The gold standard party”: Keynes, “The Gold Standard,” in The Nation and Athenaeum, May 2, 1925, in Collected Writings, 19: 361.
240 “In a new country”: Strong Memorandum, January 11, 1925, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 309.
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241 Only peril: Charles de Gaulle quote from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 728.
245 Noblemen, who might otherwise: Plessis, Histoires de la Banque, 205-10.
246 Over the 120 years: Garratt, What Has Happened to Europe, 164-65.
246 “The hardest thing to understand”: Quoted in Brogan, France Under the Republic, 66.
249 “a kind of Treasury magician”: Binion, Defeated Leaders, 95.
249 As he strode into the Chamber: “Caillaux’s Political Resurrection,” The Literary Digest, May 2, 1925, and “In Parliament,” Time, May 4, 1925.
249 “frivolity”: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 37.
250 “in elegant social circles”: Jeanneney, François de Wendel, 248.
250 “regretted not having thrown”: Jeanneney, François de Wendel, 254.
252 “we are the soldiers”: Bonnet, Vingt Ans de Vie Politique, 101-102, quoted in Jeanneney, François de Wendel, 271.
252 “battle of the franc”: Sisley, Huddleston. “France Mobilizes to Save the Franc,” New York Times, May 30, 1926.
252 It managed to raise: “Save the Franc,” Time, May 3, 1926, and New York Herald Tribune, April 21, 1926.
253 “which must never be brought out”: Sisley, Huddleston. “France Mobilizes to Save the Franc,” New York Times, May 30, 1926.
253 “[laid] down their squabbles”: Letter from Strong to Peter Jay, May 9, 1926, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 362.
253 “excoriated from one end”: Letter from Strong to George Harrison, May 23, 1926, quoted in Chandler, Benjamin Strong, 363.
254 “Am I to become