Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World (52 page)
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Authors: Adam Lebor
on intervention in German money markets,
25
letters to about Eleanor Dulles,
18
Nazi party, view of,
34
on purpose of BIS,
42–43
Schrobanco, as board member of,
17
,
18
McKittrick, Thomas
Allen Dulles, friendship with,
75
,
113
,
132
Allied-German business cooperation, encouragement of,
120–121
appointment as BIS president,
73
,
76
,
89–91
background,
73–76
Baltic states’ gold, refusal to turn over to Soviet Union,
79–80
Chase National Bank, as a vice president of,
133
cultivation of important people,
94–95
Emil Puhl, relationship with,
82–83
,
115
,
156–157
at European Cooperation Administration,
141
evacuation from Basel,
81
Hanfstaengel, role in release of,
76–77
Jews, attitude toward,
77
obituary of,
194–195
Orvis Schmidt, interview by,
125–126
personal life,
88
on plans for postwar financial system,
246
as recipient of Order of Crown of Belgium,
133
return to Basel,
110
as source of information on wartime Europe,
96–99
,
113–114
Sweden, connections in,
116–117
trip to New York,
96
Wall Street, connections to,
99–100
Meer, Fritz ter,
225
MEFO bill,
46
Mein Kampf
(Hitler),
24
Mendes-France, Pierre,
31
Messersmith, George,
105–106
Mexico, rescue package for,
206
Meyer, Laurence,
xiv
Mitchell, Charles E.,
36
Mitterand, François,
233
Money, psychology of,
7
Monnet, Jean,
168–170
,
172–173
,
192
Monnet, Murnane & Company,
170
Mooney, James,
104–106
Moreau, Emil,
11
Morgan, J. P.,
24
Morgan & Cie,
108
Morgenthau, Henry
on abolishment of BIS,
121–123
on BIS “neutrality,”
54
monitor of Chase National Bank’s German accounts,
106
on moving Czech funds,
64
opinion of BIS,
95
Morgenthau, Henry, Sr.,
96
Murnane, George,
169–170
N
National Bank of Belgium,
85
National Bank of Hungary,
202
National City Bank of New York,
74
Nation’s Business
magazine, on purpose of BIS,
42
Nelson, Frank,
80
Netherlands,
79
,
146
,
167
,
188
,
219
,
246
Neue Freie Press
, on central banks,
31
New York Federal Reserve
blockage of BIS transactions by,
95
Czech assets, transfer of,
64–65
emergency loan to Germany,
28
gold accounts in BIS,
67
membership in BIS,
229–230
ownership of shares in BIS,
20–21
relationship with BIS,
147
repatriation of German gold,
263
New York Herald Tribune
, on BIS wartime activities,
132
New York Times
on attendance at Schacht’s birthday celebration,
45
on BIS culture of secrecy,
xxiii
on financiers’ meeting with Hitler,
37
on Hjalmar Schacht,
xix
on liquidation of BIS,
66
on Montagu Norman,
3
obituary of Karl Blessing,
195
obituary of Thomas McKittrick,
194
New York Times Magazine
, on BIS,
22
News Chronicle
, on Montagu Norman’s trip to Berlin,
45
Niedermann, Carlos,
107
Niemeyer, Otto,
61
,
65–66
,
76
,
82
,
122
,
176
Nigeria, looted assets of,
261–262
NML Capital,
260
Norman, Montagu
as Baron Norman of St. Clere,
139
collusion in transfer of Czech gold,
60
,
62–63
,
267
as founder of BIS,
xvii
Hjalmar Schacht, friendship with,
30
,
44–45
,
162
McKittrick, support for,
89
personality,
3–4
prestige of,
50
Norman, Priscilla,
162
Nuremberg Tribunal,
30
,
139
,
153
,
158–162
O
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
continuation of U.S. links with German industry,
119
information on Nazi plans,
115–116
Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum,
249
The Old Wizard
(Schacht),
11
“Opinion on How the Reichsbank Should Conduct Itself in the BIS” (Blessing),
182
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
140
Organization for European Economic Cooperation,
140–141
P
Padoa-Schioppa, Tomasso,
212
Paersch, Fritz,
152–153
Papen, Franz von,
35
Pennant-Rea, Rupert,
232–234
,
240
,
252
Per Jacobssen Foundation,
192
Peterson, Peter G.,
252
Pilet-Golaz, Marcel,
90
Playfair, E. W.,
122
Pohl, Karl Otto,
210
Pons, María A.,
55
Porters, Robert,
36
Price Waterhouse,
75
Puhl, Emil
conviction of for war crimes,
86
,
159–160
interrogation of by American intelligence,
126–127
Jacobssen, relationship with,
84
McKittrick, relationship with,
82–83
,
90
,
115
,
156–157
post-war trip to U. S.,
177
on relationship of BIS with Reichsbank,
83–85
,
217
Q
Quantitative Easing,
247
Quarterly Review
(BIS),
237
Quesnay, Pierre,
24
R
Red House Report,
155
Reichsbank
abolishment of,
151
founding of,
30
Hjalmar Schacht and,
xvii
,
7
,
9
,
24
,
33
policy on BIS,
27–28
relationship with BIS,
83–85
,
114–115
,
127
reparations payments and,
9–10
Reichsgruppe Industrie,
153
Reparation payments, World War I
arguments about,
5–6
cancellation of,
29
Dawes Committee (1924),
9–10
moratorium on,
28
Reparations Commission (1921),
6
Young Plan (1929),
11–13
“Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of Jews” (Morgenthau’s staff),
160
Reserve currency rescue, coordination of by BIS,
193
Retinger, Joseph,
173
Revelstoke, Lord (John Baring),
11
,
12
Reynolds, Jackson,
18
Ribbontrop, Joachim von,
90
Rijksbank,
108
Ripley, Joseph,
146
Roosevelt, Eleanor,
186–187
Rooth, Lars,
108
Rosière, Jacques de la,
204
Ruiz, Elena Martínez,
55
Russia,
257
S
Saudi Arabia,
257
Schacht, Hjalmar
acquittal of war crimes,
160–162
appointment of von Schröder to BIS board,
35
Ashton-Gwatkin, meeting with,
70–71
background,
8–9
Deutschmark, opinion of,
151
economic achievements of,
45
