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Then Sir Robert Kindersley went to Paris and more stories began. Sir Robert is a director of the Bank of England and of the French banking firm of Lazard Bros. & Co., Ltd., in London. Was he going to Paris to beg aid from the French for the proudest bank in the world? Scot MacDonald, about to leave Berlin for London, attempted to deny the rumor...
French editors quite calmly asserted that Sir Robert Kindersley was in Paris to borrow money, and preached a little sermon to French voters blaming Great Britain's money troubles entirely on the "reckless spending" of the Labor Government. They hinted that this was what might happen to France if the Laval cabinet should fall and a government of the Left should take power...
...whole affair was bitter to British pride. Sir Robert returned to London. An announcement appeared: "Sir Robert Kindersley went to Paris to discuss hypothetical possibilities and not immediate steps." Three days later he was back in Paris again. There was no denying his intentions this time. Telephone wires to the U. S. were busy all night. The Bank of France and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York jointly extended the Bank of England a credit of ?50,000,000 ($243,000,000) for three months at 3⅜%, secured by prime commercial bills, i. e. paper of British firms...
...membership of the committees is : U. S.: Owen D. Young, General C. G. Dawes, Henry M. Robinson; Great Britain: Sir Robert Kindersley, Sir J. C. Stamp, Reginald McKenna; Italy: Dr. Alberto Pirelli, Professor Frederico Flora, Dr. Mario Alberts; Belgium: MM. Francqui, Hontard, Janssens...
...Bourne, New, 154 lbs.; No. 2, R. S. de Haviland, Corpus, 155 lbs.; No. 3, G. S. Fort, Hertford, 171 lbs.; No. 4, E. Buck, Hertford, 170 1/2 lbs.; No. 5, A. R. Patterson, Trinity, 181 lbs.; No. 6, D. Brown, Hertford, 174 lbs.; No. 7, R. S. Kindersley, Exeter, 185 lbs.; stroke, A. H. Higgins, Magdalen, 131 1/2 lbs. At Cambridge, bow, L. R. Jones, Jesus, 158 lbs.; No. 2, S. P. Smith, 1st Trinity, 156 lbs.; No. 3, P. W. Atkin, Jesus, 170 lbs.; No. 4, S. Fairbairn, Jesus, 191 lbs.; No. 5, J. C. Fellowes, 1st Trinity...