Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Banker Baron Edouard de Rothschild, 77, was grateful but hardly impressed. At Ottawa last week the Court of Exchequer decided in his favor an international rowdedow involving a mere...
...Baron de Rothschild once possessed one of the five great fortunes of France. In 1935 his personal holdings alone were estimated at $55,000,000, and the assets of the Rothschild bank in France were said to be $600,000,000. In 1940, the Vichy government confiscated the Rothschild properties in France (after the Baron had emplaned with his family for the U.S., where he has since made his home). But the Baron probably scarcely felt the pinch. He had so much left that the $1,000,000 worth of jewels he had brought with him in a satchel were...
...court action in Ottawa involved Rothschild-owned shares of the Royal Dutch Co. (oil). Worth 1,534,000 Dutch florins, they had been deposited in a Montreal bank in 1939 for safekeeping. But when the Baron reached the U.S. and asked for his florins, he found they had been impounded by Canada's Custodian of Enemy Property. The Baron could have his money, said the custodian, only if he would pay a $21,844.16 handling charge. The Baron appealed. He claimed that he had never been an enemy of Canada, that therefore Canada had no right to take custody...
Confiscation & Formality. There were also nice differences between the manner in which Göring and Hitler acquired some of their pieces. Whereas Hitler was in a position to confiscate something "in the name of the German state"-as, for example, the Rothschild collection in Paris -Goring preferred more formal methods, with at least a fiction of legality. Göring did get some fine things from the Rothschild collection, such as a portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa by Velasquez, but Hofer insisted that everything taken from the Rothschild collection (which he said was "collected") was later appraised...
Other discoveries of the week: ¶ A whopping collection of uncatalogued art objects-in a sealed mine near Alt-Aussee, high in the Austrian Alps. This "lode" is reported to include works from Monte Cassino, Rothschild collections from Paris and Vienna, the famed Ghent altarpiece by the Brothers Van Eyck, and a part of Goring's treasures. (Deep in the mine are Hitler's own library and personal correspondence...