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...known today as Sir Basil Zaharoff. He was on intimate of Lloyd George during the war; a few relatively mild revelations of the degree to which he influenced Great Britain's armament, military, and foreign policies during and after the war were enough, in 1922, to send Lloyd George, who did more than any other man to win the way out of office forever. This strange character, the greatest armament salesman the world has ever known, struck a major spark in the world when he collided with an American of somewhat similar interests. Zaharoff at that time was a salesman...
...naturally, it was the World War that gratified Sir Basil Most. The profits of war time armament manufacture were practically incalculable; by the end of the war Sir Basil had a personal fortune that was estimated as low as $100,000,000 or $200,000,000 and as high as a billion. And in 1917 when there seemed a possibility of peace through the intervention of the United States, Lord Bertie, British Ambassador to France, naively recorded in his diary: "Zaharoff is all for continuing the war jusqu'au bout...
...much for Germany and her Krupp, the United States and Bethlehem Steel. England and Vickers-Armstrongs, and the new withered and scutle Sir Basil. Do these armament businesses seem Big Business." Then you must alter your sense of proportion before you go further. All the foregoing is a more cuvtam vaiser to the Big Show. The Big Show is France...
...Detective Story Writers Georges Simenon and André Gaston Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector Alfred C. Collins of Scotland Yard; famed ex-Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, Britain's greatest detective (TIME, July 8, 1929); and last but not least Sir Basil Thomson, onetime Director of Intelligence of the British Secret Service...
After a brilliant career which included the tracking down of Mata Hari Sir Basil retired, a Knight Commander of the Bath, in 1921. In 1925 he was the object of a cause célèbre of his own when lie was arrested in Hyde Park with one Thelma de Lava on charges of indecency, public impropriety and attempting to bribe a policeman. Knowing that Sir Basil was not only a distinguished sleuth but the son of a late Archbishop of York, the British Penny Press gloated. Sir Basil claimed a frame-up. He was fined ?5 and costs...