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...while Nazi troops stood over him with guns, Vienna's Baron Louis de Rothschild calmly finished his lunch, dabbed his fingers in a finger bowl, smoked a cigarette, approved the next day's menu-and then was marched off to prison. A year later, after Heinrich Himmler visited his cell, his freedom was bought in return for all the assets of the Austrian branch in Austria and abroad, and Louis found refuge in Vermont; the Austrian house never revived.† After Paris was occupied, the Rothschilds were forced to sell most of their French stocks on an already...
Fresh Face. European historians reason that every Rothschild at birth is already 150 years old, and worth several millions. From his earliest years, Guy was imbued with a sense of family loyalty and duty, heard his mother lecture: "Don't flaunt your wealth." Four of Guy's great grandparents were Rothschilds, a result of the fact that half of the family's 59 weddings in the 19th century twined Rothschild men (and money) with Rothschild women. Guy entered the bank after studying law, then got called off to war. He was one of only three...
...replace the old men with scratch pens. They sought out new banking customers as their more conservative fathers never would have done, and launched new companies to share in Europe's postwar boom. When Guy & Co. formed a consortium to explore for oil in the Sahara, the Rothschild name added glamour to the venture, and the entire stock issue was snapped up within hours...
With help from the World Bank, de Rothschild Freres created another consortium that has put up $166 million to exhume a rich iron lode in Mauritania. Among other companies that the Rothschilds control, Pefiarroya in Chile mines 7% of the free world's lead, and Le Nickel in New Caledonia produces 10% of the world's nickel. Under Guy, the Rothschilds have also built France's biggest private uranium mining company, which supplies some of the raw material for De Gaulle's force de frappe. And it was de Rothschild Freres that drafted the plan...
Most Secretive. In London, N. M. Rothschild & Sons is constructing a new, six-story headquarters in the City to symbolize its revival. It continues to be Britain's most secretive bank, but it is getting a little less so. To lure fresh talent and provide for its expanding services, the bank has admitted three non-Rothschilds as partners (the family still controls with four partners). The British Rothschilds, who still are the world's most important bullion dealers, have started a factoring company, an investment advisory service and two mutual funds, are participating in a consortium to underwrite...