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First. Lord Reading succeeded the late Alfred Moritz Mond, Baron Melchett, as Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., thus becoming the Empire's No. 1 tycoon...
Zionist efforts will be redoubled at an emergency meeting of the World Zionist Actions Committee planned for November 4 in London. To cheer President Weizmann came a fighting letter from Great Britain's richest Jewish industrialist, Baron Melchett, who also resigned his chairmanships of the Council and Political Committee of the Jewish Agency. Calling the Passfield Declaration a "grotesque travesty ... an insult to the intelligence of Jewry," he wrote with cold fury: "It is impossible to discover what rights the Jews in or out of Palestine are to have in the future, or in what way they...
...stuff, but of the same quality that won 5,000,000 Liberal votes at the last election. What was new came next. Earlier in the week, Sir William Philip Morris, famed small-motor-car tycoon, had drummed up another committee of "foremost British industrialists," including Jewish Baron Melchett to try again to save the Empire from "economic ruin" and its "muddling politicians." Poking fun at the "Industrialists," Politician Lloyd George remarked that "Great Britain is the most overindustrialized country in the world. Only 7% of our people are on the soil! At present the industries of the country...
Moreover in the MacDonald Cabinet itself, according to Lord Melchett, "Mr. Snowden stands alone"* in opposition to a tariff policy...
Because he likes to speak in paradoxes, smiling Lord Melchett next informed the Bond Club that Britain, in preparing to erect a tariff wall around her Empire, is really seeking the benefits of free trade. "We are beginning to think along the lines of economic units the size of the United States," said he. "Your vast continent, stretching from the Atlantic to San Francisco, presents the greatest free trade area in the world. ... It owes its great prosperity not to tariffs but to its great free trade area! . . . That is something which has been overlooked in America...