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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over. Author was "The Stinger in the Triple Bromide"-Economist John Maynard Keynes, who, as a member of the Economic Advisory Council and secretary of the Royal Economic Society, frequently stimulates the thinking of Britain's financial triumvirate: Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, and Lord Stamp, the Bank's most celebrated director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Stinger's Plan | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...August 1917, after Indian troops had fought long and loyally in Mesopotamia against the Turks-Mohammedans against Mohammedans-and in France against the Germans-Aryans against "Aryans"-British Secretary of State for India Edwin S. Montagu announced in Parliament that His Majesty's grateful Government was in favor of the "development of self-governing institutions ... in India." But there was a catch: Britain herself must judge "the time and the measure" of each step towards dominion status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Of Time and the Measure | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...longer a partner) of the highly political London and Paris Lazard banks. Lazard's of Manhattan underwrites securities and, above all, does a big business in foreign exchange. Invaluable to this clearing house of news, bullion and foreign capital will be Jeidels, who is a friend of Montagu Norman, has access to choice Continental pipelines into Hitlerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Insider from Overseas | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...World Bank," a Swiss corporation owned and operated by the central banks of the powers and a consortium of U. S. banks, keeps no gold in its modest headquarters at Basle, instead maintains deposits with the member banks, one of them the privately operated Bank of England. Goateed Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England and a director of the B.I.S., had no other course than to return the gold to the B.I.S. Presumably the Czech National Bank's management will have no course other than to do its Nazi masters' bidding, call home the gold from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pelf | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Eighteen assorted British bigwigs, men like Montagu Norman, John Masefield, Lord Derby last week sent a cream-puff plea to Adolf Hitler to keep the peace of Europe, just as Handsome Adolf was about to say what he was going to do to Europe next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cream-Puff Plea | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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