Foreign News: Gilbert Winds Up

Graduate of Rutgers, efficient Seymour Parker Gilbert, "The Bright Young Man of U. S. Finance," has been Agent General of Reparations since 1924.

Last week the official opening of the Bank for International Settlements at Basle (see above) was Mr. Gilbert's cue to wind up his affairs in Berlin, prepare to sail for the U. S. By signing a fat sheaf of papers, he transferred to the B. I. S. at Basle $17,577,450 representing the credit balance of the Reparations Commission at Berlin, plus $25,996,500 representing its balances in the capitals of the Great...

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