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...Believe-It-or-Notable character is Thomas Harrington McKittrick, 54, of Milton, Mass. and Basel, Switzerland. Though he is a U.S. citizen, and his country is at war, he is a neutral in office hours. For he is the President of the Bank for International Settlements...
...such occasions high U.S. or British officials come to the bank's defense and explain that its business, under McKittrick, is so conducted that none of its operations could possibly confer an advantage on any belligerent nation at the expense of another. These operations consist chiefly of: 1) collecting interest; 2) semi-automatic renewal of maturing investments (no new ones are made); 3) extending limited credits to central banks; 4) handling payments under the international postal agreement and prewar treaties; 5) acting as banker for the International Red Cross organizations operating from Switzerland. Last year the bank...
Nazi Restraint. The self-effacing but worldly-wise McKittrick was in the U.S. this year-he came out through southern France before the Nazis occupied it, and returned through Italy on a diplomatic visa (which the State Department did not obtain for him). While in the U.S. he did not comment on the fact that the Nazis refrain from using the Axis majority on the board of directors for unneutral undertakings. To all such queries he replied: "Remember, I'm neutral." Once he amplified this: "The policy of the bank can only be to remain entirely outside all matters...
...concrete ships built in World War I had the reputation of cracking easily, even when they struck a pier. Nevertheless, many survived the Armistice. The McKittrick hauled oil until 1932, then became a nightclub boat off California until broken to bits in a storm. The Faith carried New Orleans-South American cargo for a while, is now a fish-reduction plant. The Rucker purred between Fort Myer, Va. and Fort Washington, Md. until fire got her superstructure...
Judge Southern summoned a county grand jury and ordered Prosecutor Graves to keep hands off the evidence he had collected (including a sucker list of Kansas City's amateur gamblers complete with their credit connections). As Prosecutors Graves and McKittrick sat by, jaws hanging, Judge Southern snapped to the jury: "Gentlemen, the prosecuting attorney denies ... a general state of lawlessness exists.. .. It is certain that the prosecuting attorney has not prepared and will not be able to prepare evidence of a thing which he says does not exist. . . . The Attorney General tells me ... he has obtained no evidence...