Despair last week overcame shy, secretive Montagu Collet Norman, the fox-bearded Governor of the Bank of England whose furtive flitting from continent to continent under assumed names began to seem last summer like the dodging and weaving of a fox with hounds baying at his heels (TIME, Aug. 26).
Reynard Norman was run to earth last week at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London's stately Mansion House. Stuffily seated around him were many of Mother England's greatest bankers, businessmen and statesmen. Mr. Norman almost never makes a public speech but now, suddenly, the...
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