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...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...
...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...
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...
...most-talked-of political clique in 1938 was the "Cliveden Set," the name applied to a group of eminent Britons who frequented Cliveden, Buckinghamshire estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Occasional visitors to Cliveden are Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Geoffrey Dawson,' editor of the potent London Times, which is owned by Lady Astor's brother-in-law. Major John Jacob Astor; and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...kicked around the laws of economics, British bankers like to think that he has done so under political compulsion, that fundamentally he is a sound financier who may eventually lead Germany back to respectable financial methods: His host last week was his old friend, hoary-bearded Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...