translate English to French: Second, the war years were a crisis period, and it was generally felt that many extraordinary arrangements would disappear in a postwar return to "normalcy": the permanent character of many of these changes was thus obscured.
Protéger le trésor public était la fonction essentielle du conseil ; la C.S.C., de son côté, avait peu à peu assumé le rôle de gardienne non du trésor public, mais de la moralité publique.