began bringing produce to market, food reappeared in the shops, and those interminable queues began to melt away. Lord d’Abernon, the British ambassador, wrote of the “astonishing appeasement and relief brought about by a touch of the magical wand of “Currency Stability. . . . The economic détente has brought in its train political pacification—dictatorships and putsches are no longer discussed, and even the extreme parties have ceased, for the moment, from troubling. ”
