GREAT BRITAIN Trouble with the circulation in their legs brought two great men low last week. "Papa" Joffre, victor of the Marne, lay dying in Paris of gangrene caused by arteritis (swelling of an artery) which has bothered him for several months (see p. 16). In London Lord Melchett, Zionist, greatest British chemical tycoon, died of phlebitis—inflammation of a vein. Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett of Landford, was born in Farnworth, Lancashire. Like John Pierpont Morgan and many another tycoon, he inherited the basis of his fortune. His father was the famed Jewish chemist Dr. Ludwig Mond of...
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