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...cost of building at Ebbw Vale, and partly because of the 1938 recession, Richard Thomas & Co.'s funds ran out two years ago, before the mill was ready. Sir William accepted a ?6,000,000 loan from the Bank of England. In return for this loan, Bank Governor Montagu Norman got: 1) a first mortgage on company receipts; 2) operating control. No longer boss of Richard Thomas, Sir William began taking orders from Governor Norman's new board, on which were the president of the cartel Viscount Greenwood, other old-line steel bigwigs, some of Richard Thomas...
...terms of dollars, the British pound has two prices. One price is quoted by the Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, who last week was re-elected for his 21st year as Governor of the Bank of England...
First among them was none other than Premier Risto Ryti of the Finnish Government. That Premier Ryti should lead a delegation to Moscow was in itself the height of irony. Knighted by King George V of England in 1934 and a close friend of Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Ryti is one of the world's outstanding financiers and a confirmed Anglophile. His advice to Finnish businessmen has always been, "Protect yourselves. Undersell the Russians." He himself owns only British-made cars. For years Governor of the Bank of Finland, dapper, suave, immaculate Risto Ryti...
...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...
...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...