SIR ALFRED MOND

Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3480, 14 December 1926, Page 9

SIR ALFRED MOND

A WIZARD OP FINANCE. A HUGE CHEMICAL, COMBINE. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, Nov. 1. Sir Allred Mond, the big figure in tho new chemical combine, has become in the public eye what he has been in the eyes of the industrial wo,rld tor years—a king of industry. A friend who knows him well declares that there is no other man in the country to-day who can, with so little effort, persuade others that they should follow his leadership. Sir Alfred Mond can enter a board room for a meeting that anyone else would say was bristling with difficulties, and, in quarter of an hour, will have every man present in agreement with him. He in a man who thinks quickly and clearly, and he possesses the rare ability of saying the exact minimum that has to be said, without one unnecessary word. His income is colossal, but no one who has worked under him will deny that he earns every penny of it. Jewish Leaders of Finance. A friend of mine reading the names of those responsible for the great chemical combine, commented on the number of Scottish and Jewish leaders of the movement. He recalled Sir Robert Horne’s story of the Scotsman who said; —“What puzzles me la where these Jews get all tho money I make off them.” Perhaps more to tho point is the remark of a certain young nobleman who having been Invited to embark on a certain transaction which was obviously meant for tho benefit of the promoter remarked:—“You seem to forget that my father was a Scotsman and my mother a Jewess.” In point of fact tho new enterprise bas behind it a team of the ablest brains in this country, including not a few Englishmen. I believe the preliminary Investigations, which have been carried out in the strictest confidence, have been in progress for some months. Much spadework still remains to be done, but there is little doubt that It will be successful.