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...biography of Owen D. Young (see p. 51), Authoress Ida Minerva Tarbell relates how he arranged a meeting of John Pierpont Morgan and Belgian Banker Emile Francqui during the Young Plan conferences. Next day Banker Young asked the Belgian how the meeting went. Said M. Francqui: "Fine, Owen Young. I say wow-wow to Mr. Morgan, Mr. Morgan say wow-wow to me, and we go home...
...public utilities, until in 1912 he caught the attention of General Electric's President Charles Coffin. As head of the law department he had plenty of practice in his specialty: negotiation by mutual compromise. Negotiator Young was so adept, so tactful that a gift to Belgian Emile Francqui of one of his prize Van Hornesville bulls contributed to the successful termination of the 1929 Reparations conference...
...week behind them. Threatened in Chile by political agitation against their nitrate interests, in Manhattan, on their copper front, they faced the Belgian Congo's prolific Katanga. Nor were they alone in their fears of potent Union Miniere du Haut Katanga. Represented by Belgian Minister of State Emile Francqui and his cohorts, MM. Fernand Pisart & Camille Gutt, Katanga was forcing a hard bargain on a conference of the world's copper producers. Further curtailment of output to cut down the mounting supplies of copper on hand was the conference's purpose. Through the guarded doors no statements...
Conferences last week were on what the copper industry calls an "informal basis," the customary dodge to get around the Sherman Act. But not only were conferences informal, they were just about over. Emile Francqui, chief of the Katangans, departed for home. A. Chester Beatty, chairman of Rhodesia's important Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., said he was sailing Friday night; MM. Pisart & Gutt took passage on the Saturday sailing of the Ile de France. The conference looked like a failure. Then someone made a mysterious move and the foreigners stayed...
...Emile Francqui, Vice-Governor of Societe Generate de Belgique...