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...stocky little tycoon who smiles and smiles (from habit rather than chronic mirth) is great Baron Melchett, No. 1 British industrialist, board chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Last week in Manhattan he smiled at the Bond Club, addressed to its spruce and serious members a sardonic prophecy. Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition...
...what about Philip Snowden, the "Iron Chancellor" of British Labor, whom everyone knows to be a lifelong, well-nigh fanatical champion of free trade? The boldest part of Lord Melchett's speech was that in which he quietly brushed the power and prestige of the Chancellor aside...
...ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd. He became also a director of Imperial Chemicals, Ltd., Lord Melchett's British counterpart of I. G. Farbenindustrie...
...London potent Baron Melchett (Alfred Moritz Mond), one of the foremost British industrial tycoons, pledged ?5000 ($25,000) to feed and succor the hundreds of Palestine Jews burnt out of their homes or left orphaned, widowed, destitute. London Bankers James A. de Rothschild quickly followed with a like sum. So did Manhattan's Felix Warburg, who was in London. A fourth $25,000 was pledged by Chicago's Julius Rosenwald, and a fifth by Manhattan's Nathan Straus. Before the week was out, Mr. Straus had doubled his $25,000 pledge and lesser contributions from world Jewry...
Several distinguished Jews spoke at last week's meeting, including Chemical Tycoon Lord Melchett and Sir Robert Samuel, famed Liberal. None was more closely attended, however, than orotund Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan, who said: "Theodor Herzl was one of the few men truly epochal . . . because he dared to bid the Jew to be what, for nearly two millenia, he had not dared to be-to be himself, a Jew. . . . Before Herzl came the Jews had been so hurt by the world's ill will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely...