SCANDALOUS GAMBLE
THE PEPPER CRISIS SEARCHING INQUIRY DEMANDED (United Preßß Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 14tli February. Declaring that the pepper crisis was the result of a scandalous gamble, the ramifications of which demanded a searching inquiry in the interests of both the public weal and the City’s good name, the '“News-Chronicle” states that behind the facts that have so far emerged lies a background of mystery. Rumour has begun to involve not only leading figures in finance and industry, but others whose responsibilities to tlie public are still greater. The ‘Economist,” tracing the history of attempts to corner pepper and shellac, points out that Mr Reginald McKenna and Sir Hugo Cunliffe Owen are shareholders in tlie firm of James and Shakespeare and'also members of the boards of other companies with which James ancl Shakespeare were eventually associated. The “Economist,” commenting on the relationships, says: “It may be possible for Mr McKenna and Sir Hugo Owen to dissociate their personal interests as investors from their public responsibilities, but it is regrettable that men in such a position of trusteeship placed themselves in a position in which the market might infer that they had some rcsponsibilty for events.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 February 1935, Page 7
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196SCANDALOUS GAMBLE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 February 1935, Page 7
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