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...brisk, broad strokes, the musical describes how Mayer Rothschild (Hal Linden) discovered a path out of the ghetto at the Frankfurt Fair of 1773, where he began trading in rare coins. When his sons came of age, he managed to install them as bankers to Prince William of Hesse (Keene Curtis). At the onset of the Napoleonic Wars, the five sons were dispatched to the fiscal centers of Europe. Eventually, they amassed the kind of money that made the House of Rothschild a greater power than any power in Europe...
...Balfour's letter of Nov. 2. 1917 to Lord Rothschild contained the words: "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish People ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." It will be seen that Mr. Balfour pledged nothing. Nor was he or the government of Great Britain in a position to pledge the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Palestine'' was never a British colony, territory or possession...
Maxwell, a Member of Parliament until he was defeated in the June election, was held in considerably greater esteem in London's financial community. Last year, advised by merchant bankers N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Saul Steinberg, 31, chairman of Manhattan's Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp., made a $60 million bid for control of Pergamon. The ebullient Steinberg saw Pergamon's big library of scientific data as a logical complement to Leasco (1969 sales: $101 million), which has aggressively moved into all phases of computer information services as well as management consulting and insurance...
ARTHUR L. ROTHSCHILD Buffalo...
...takeover of I.O.S. by a Rothschild-headed bankers' group is not the only possibility. Some company officers have been talking about splitting off parts of the company in which they have influence and, in alliance with bankers, setting up separate enterprises. Complaining of internal dissension, Cornfeld pointed to "those maniacal guys on the board." Cornfeld still has about 15% of the company's stock, and, like Napoleon trying to come back from Elba, he has been jetting from country to country, seeking to gather proxies from his sales managers for a triumphal return to power...