Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World (49 page)
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Authors: Adam Lebor
Bell, Geoffrey,
225
Beneduce, Alberto,
29
Beneduce Committee,
29
Berner Tagblatt
, on insider trading by BIS officials,
39
,
41
Bernstein, Bernard,
187
Bevin, Ernest,
45
Beyen, Johan Willem,
39
,
50
,
60–62
,
73
,
122
,
124
,
266
Biddle, Francis,
162
BIS.
See
Bank for International Settlements
The BIS at Work
(Eleanor Dulles),
32
BIS committees
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision,
xx
,
xxi–xxii
,
207–208
,
240–242
,
256
,
257
Committee on Gold and Foreign Exchange,
189
Economic Consultative Committee,
xii–xiii
,
259
German Credits Arbitration Committee,
74
,
76
Global Financial System,
xxii
,
239
,
250
Black, Edwin,
105
Blair & Company,
169
Blessing, Karl
arrest and imprisonment of,
185
as board member of Kontinental-Öl,
184–185
Coombs’ opinion of,
181
on own career,
194
powerful allies of,
185
,
186
,
187
role of in Nazi Germany,
182–183
view of BIS as political institution,
27–28
Blondheim, David,
32
Bogni, Rudi,
265
Boisanger, Yves Bréart de,
85
Bonaparte, Napoleon,
29
Booktab,
102
Bosch company,
118
Boughton, James M.,
141
Bracken, Brendan,
62
Brazil,
xi
Bretton Woods Accord,
xvi
Bretton Woods Conference (1944),
121–125
Brinckmann, Rudolf,
149–151
,
176
,
192
,
197–198
Brinckmann, Wirtz and Company bank,
149–150
,
176
,
197
Britain
BIS, attitude toward,
89
,
123–124
,
139
in European Payments Union,
167
as founding member of BIS,
xvii
,
20
gold reserves of,
55
gold standard and,
42
n London Gold Pool,
188
Spanish civil war, view of,
56
World War I reparations,
5
,
28
,
39
British Security Coordination,
101–102
British Treasury,
110
Brown Brothers Harriman bank,
145–146
Bruning, Heinrich,
28
Bütefisch, Heinrich,
184
Buna,
100
Bundesbank,
xx
,
191
,
219
,
244
,
263
,
264
Burckhardt, Martin,
199
Burgess, W. Randolph,
50
Bush, Prescott,
145
C
Caesar, Hans,
107
Casey, William,
186
Catto, Thomas, 1st Baron Catto,
125
,
139
Cecchetti, Stephen,
254
,
259
,
260
,
272
CEEC (Conference for European Economic Cooperation),
140
,
146
Central bankers
economic and political power of,
43–44
growing prominence of,
249
need for awareness of concerns of public,
251
responsibility for financial stability,
250
,
253
Central banks, argument for,
31
Chase National Bank,
106–108
,
133
,
144
Château de Rougemont,
81
Château d’Oex,
81
Chemnyco,
101
Churchill, Winston,
173
Cicero, “sinews of war” quote from,
66
City of London, deregulation of,
227–228
Clay, Lucius,
138
Cochran, Merle,
41
,
49
,
54
,
73
,
80
,
106
Cold War,
201–202
Committee for Foreign Economic Affairs,
153
Committee for the Study of Economic and Monetary Union,
210
Committee on Global Financial System,
xxii
,
239
,
250
,
257
Committee on Gold and Foreign Exchange,
189
Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems,
xxii
,
257
Concentration camp inmates, use of in industry,
184
,
185
Conference for European Economic Cooperation (CEEC),
140
,
146
Coombs, Charles,
xv
,
179–181
,
188
,
189–191
Craig, Bruce,
142
Credit Anstalt bank,
44
Croatia,
184
Crockett, Andrew,
225–226
,
243
,
258–259
Czechoslovak gold affair,
59–63
Czechoslovakia Act,
62
D
Daily Herald
, on transfer of Czech gold,
61
Dalziel, Charles,
76
Das Reich
, on BIS,
124–125
Dawes, Charles,
9
Dawes Committee (1924),
9–10
Dawes Plan German External Loan,
74
De Gaulle, Charles,
194
The Death of a Diplomat
(Jacobssen),
52
Degesch,
104
Delors, Jacques,
210
,
215
,
226
,
233
Deutschmark,
151–152
Devisenschutzkommando (DSK),
86
Donovan, William J. “Bill,”
97
,
161
,
173
Doose, Hugo,
86
Draghi, Mario,
xi
,
246–248
,
249
,
252
,
263
Dreyfus, Paul,
77
Duisenberg, Willem,
210
Dulles, Allen
American Committee for a United Europe, role of in,
173
background,
15–16
continuation of U.S. links with German industry,
119
Jacobssen, introduction to,
127
Japanese peace proposal, relay of to Stimson,
131
Marshall Plan, view of,
140
McKittrick, friendship with,
75
,
113
,
132
at Office for Strategic Services,
94
,
113
as partner at Sullivan & Cromwell,
16
recommendation of Germans for posts in new administration,
185–186
refinancing of Germany, role of in,
17–18
request of assistance for sister Eleanor,
18
use of BIS contacts in intelligence-gathering,
19
,
113
whitewashing of former Nazis by,
186
Dulles, Eleanor Lansing,
18
,
32–33
Dulles, John Foster
as attorney for BIS,
96
cartel agreements, role of in,
37
on German elections (1930),
24
influential friends of,
18–19
Jean Monnet, friendship with,
169
,
170
legal work for businesses with financial links to Germany,
143
,
144
refinancing of Germany, role of in,
17
unified Europe, belief in,
170–171
Dustbin (Kransberg Castle),
149
E
Eccles, Marriner,
64–65
“Economic and Monetary Union and Launching the Construction of Europe” (Delors),
215
Economic Consultative Committee (ECC),
xiii
,
xxi
,
xxi
,
259
“Economic Reorganization of Europe” (Funk),
221
Economist
on central bankers’ power,
xvi
on London Gold Pool,
189
ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community),
167–168
,
171–172
,
210
Eggers, Constanza von,
8
Einsatzgruppe D,
154
Elliot Management,
260
Enabling Act (1933),
33
Enskilda Bank,
74
,
106
,
109
,
116
,
117
,
118
EPU (European Payments Union),
xxi
,
166–167
,
176
,
222
Erhard, Ludwig,
152
,
153–154
,
171–172
Ernst & Young,
249
Estonia,
25
Euro
benefits of,
230–231
