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...family moves comfortably through international society and top-level business circles. This ancient and unusual banking dynasty shields itself from the curious eye of the public, but the map and history of Europe have been changed by its action and etched with its name: the House of Rothschild...
...Rothschild gold has powered the ambitions of prime ministers, princes and popes. It has financed wars and reparations treaties, changed the course of politics and bailed out armies and na tions. The Rothschilds strung railroads across the Continent, gained control of the Suez Canal for Britain, supported oilfields in the Caucasus and the Sahara, carved diamond mines in the African veld. Seldom unimaginative in the use of their money, they paid for the expedition that exhumed the mummy of Egypt's long-lost King Tutankhamen, have supported countless hungering artists and endowed many hospitals. To be a Rothschild...
...modern family-neither the Krupps nor the Philipses nor the Thyssens-has been so important for so long in European business. Newer dynasties such as the Rockefellers and the Fords have made more millions, but modern standards of wealth do not really measure the Rothschilds. The fortune of the family's financiers totals anywhere from $500 million to $1 billion, but ledgers cannot reflect the Rothschild lands, their possessions and influence accumulated over the generations, their priceless collections of art. Though the Rothschilds' fortune has been subdivided more than 100 times over the years, it still seems inexhaustible...
...appropriately called Second Continuation Ltd.-to give the French house a stake in the British bank and enable them jointly to exploit new opportunities on the Continent if and when Britain joins the Common Market. The sums involved are large, but in the contemporary world of great industrial consortiums, Rothschild money is no longer indispensable and controlling; cabinets no longer fall at their whim...
...family's reunion is due partly to the disappearance of an older and stiffer generation, but largely to the smoothing influence of today's most influential member, France's Guy Edouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild.* It was Guy (hard g as in geese) who, taking over the family's French bank during the disorder of war and defeat, changed its character from stewardship of the family fortune to expansive modern banking. Where the bank's previous aim in this century had been to pursue safe obscurity, under Guy it entered the mainstream of modern business...