| Description | An account of an interview Kenneth Oswald Peppiatt had with Hugo von Mendelssohn Bartholdy, a partner in Mendelssohn's of Berlin and Amsterdam [which was to crash later in the thirties, who wanted to set up a company in London to deal in blocked currencies and German securities and to arrange credits for German exporters. The proposals were considered inopportune and eyebrows raised at the morality of the Reichsbank's release of funds (included are copies of undertakings) to establish a business in direct competition with London firms with large credits frozen in Germany. The intermediary (of Cull & Co) was gently rebuked. |