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Originally published in 1935, this book charts the revolution from
a banking to an industrial conception of currency which took place
between 1922 and 1932. Having failed to stabilise the purchasing
power of gold, General Strong stabilised the purchasing power of
the dollar, an idea which was revived on an international scale by
the Ottawa Conference of 1932. The stabilisation of purchasing
power, independently of gold, was subsequently adopted as the
keystone of British currency policy.
Originally published in 1935, this book charts the revolution from
a banking to an industrial conception of currency which took place
between 1922 and 1932. Having failed to stabilise the purchasing
power of gold, General Strong stabilised the purchasing power of
the dollar, an idea which was revived on an international scale by
the Ottawa Conference of 1932. The stabilisation of purchasing
power, independently of gold, was subsequently adopted as the
keystone of British currency policy.
Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when
the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny. Global
financial circles were discussing the necessity of reducing the
price of gold, pressing for the return of Britain to a gold
standard and imposing a managed currency. Against a background of
post-war monetary and financial dislocations, the author argues
that the unique monetary quality of gold is its liquidity, and its
universal acceptability as a natural form of money throughout the
world.
Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when
the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny. Global
financial circles were discussing the necessity of reducing the
price of gold, pressing for the return of Britain to a gold
standard and imposing a managed currency. Against a background of
post-war monetary and financial dislocations, the author argues
that the unique monetary quality of gold is its liquidity, and its
universal acceptability as a natural form of money throughout the
world.
Valérie André is one of the great military aviators of the
twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly a helicopter in
combat and one of the first three helicopter medevac pilots. Flying
more than 150 helicopter rescue missions during the French war in
Indochina (including at Dien Bien Phu), and parachuting into the
field twice, André was a trailblazer, a pioneer of flying
helicopters in combat and an innovator of battlefield medicine, who
risked her life to treat the wounded, whether they were French or
Vietnamese, whether they were friend, civilian, or foe. Aviation
historian Charles Morgan Evans tells her story with verve and
pathos. André was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1922. From an
early age, she wanted to fly, but as a woman, she faced challenges.
While boys could receive government-funded flight lessons, André
had to pay for hers by tutoring. During World War II, she left
Strasbourg against German prohibitions in order to study medicine
in Paris, where she completed her studies under threat of arrest by
the Gestapo. Assigned to an army hospital in Saigon in French
Indochina in the late 1940s, André trained as a neurosurgeon,
performing one hundred procedures per month. When the French
medical corps developed mobile surgical units to be air-dropped
into military outposts, she quickly volunteered, and then when the
service acquired a few primitive helicopters, she volunteered for
that, which meant learning to fly helicopters in combat. Flying
through bullets and bombs, fatigue, parasitic illness, and
mechanical issues with the helicopters— not to mention the French
army’s prejudice against a female pilot and surgeon—André
nonetheless became a legend in Indochina. The Vietnamese called her
“the woman who comes down from the sky” and “Mrs.
Ventilator.” On one day in December 1951, she flew her chopper
into the teeth of antiaircraft fire to a besieged base, where she
performed emergency brain surgeries, then flew the wounded to
hospitals in Hanoi, two at a time. After Indochina, she continued
to be an innovator in military aviation and medicine as well as an
advocate for women’s integration into the French military. In the
early 1960s, she flew another 236 missions in Algeria. In 1975, she
became the first female general in the French army, and at her
retirement, she had flown nearly 500 combat missions, logged 4,000
hours in helicopters, and won the Croix de Guerre five times, the
Cross of Military Valor twice, and the Grand Cross of the National
Order of Merit. André, who just turned ninety-nine, is still alive
and lives near Paris, and this book is based on a series of author
interviews with her and comprehensive research in other sources.
Challenge to Venus has its settings in the ancient hill-town of
Varenna in Italy in 1957 when the book was first published. Against
the background of a closely knit Italian society, into which
Fiammeta Alerani was born, it tells the story of her encounter with
a visiting Englishman; of their conflict of temperament, tradition
and upbringing; of their surrender to each other, and of the
diverging loves which are the result of that experience. Fiammeta,
like Psyche who was called a rival of Venus, has extreme beauty. In
spite of the heat of her blood, it is in her proud nature to
believe that she is the mistress of her own impulse and exempt from
the consequences of human frailty, as a goddess might be. The
Englishman has a different pride -the pride of being 'ordinary', of
never allowing himself to 'go in off the deep end', and of
supposing that by this means he can make life conform to design.
With unstressed irony, the lovers are presented neither as hero and
heroine to be actually uncritically admired nor as fools to be
despised, but as normal creatures who fall in the ambush of the
senses. Their story carries a step further, in the form of
tragic-comedy, one of the author's basic themes - that fate
implacably drives man and woman to self knowledge and the
acceptance of their limitations. In the province of love as in the
province of power, that form of pride which the Greeks called
hubris draws down retribution upon itself. No one is exempt. No one
is permitted to rival the gods. From the original edition,
Macmillan & Co LTD, UK, 1957 ]+++++++++++++++++ MORGAN, CHARLES
LANGBRIDGE (1894-1958), drama critic, novelist, playwright. He was
trained in the Royal Navy but resigned in 1913 to lead a literary
life, though he returned to serve in the navy during both World
Wars. He entered Brasenose College, Oxford and joined the staff of
The Times, becoming its principal drama critic, (1926-39).
Contributed weekly articles on the London theatre to the New York
Times. He received many honorary degrees; was elected president of
the English Association, 1953-54, and of the International Literary
Congress for Authors, 1954-56. He produced a continuous sequence of
literary masterpieces. His novels and plays were particularly
artistic, of profound significance, and of great and varied
narrative power. Portrait in a Mirror (1929) was awarded the
Femina-Vie Heureuse prize; The Fountain (1932) the Hawthornden
prize; and The Voyage (1940) the James Tait Black memorial book
prize. A dramatised version of The River Line (1949) was produced
at the Edinburgh Festival in 1952. His final two novels, A Breeze
of Morning (1951), about an adult love affair witnessed by a young
boy and Challenge to Venus (1957), some of the themes of The
Fountain are now published again under the Rediscovered Books
series of Jorge Pinto Books, Inc.
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