Before War gave Herbert Hoover to starving Belgians he fell in with another able U. S. mining capitalist named Alfred Chester Beatty in London. In 1911 the two looked not unlike: solid, broad-browed citizens, both engaged in financing exotically-named companies to ferret out underground wealth. Soon firm friends, they worked together on promoting a Klondike property. They did better with Russo-Asiatic Consolidated. Like good mining men, both were quick-witted and taciturn, used to keeping their mouths shut in strange places, self-reliant, worldly and well-educated. When War came, Herbert Hoover turned from the...
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