SIR ALFRED MOND

Shannon News, 17 December 1926, Page 3

SIR ALFRED MOND

A WIZARD OF FINANCE.LONDON, Nov. 1. Sir Alfred Mond, the big figure in Cxe new chemical combine, has become in the public eye what he has been in, the eyes of the industrial world tor years —a kins: of industry. A friend who knows him well declares that there is no other man in the country to-day who can, with so little effort, persuade others that they should follow his leadership. Sir Alfred Mond can enter a board room for a meeting that anyone else would say was bristling with difficulties, and, in quarter of an hour, will have every man present in agreement with him. He ib a man who thinks quickly and clearly, and he possesses the rare ability of saying the exact minimum that has to be said,'without one unnecessary word. His income is colossal, but ; no- one who?has worked under him will deny that h 6 earns .eyery penny -of it. - Jewish Leaders of Finance. A friend ofmine.reading: the names of those' responsible for. the great chemical combine, commented oh the number of Scottish and Jewish lead-' ers of the movement. He recalled Sir Robert Home's story of the Scotsman who said:—"What puzzles me la where these Jews get all the-money I make off them." Perhaps more to the point is the remark of a certain young nobleman who having been Invited to embark on a certain transaction which was obviously meant for the benefit of the promoter remarked: —"You seem to forget that my father was a Scotsman and my mother a Jewess." In point Of fact the new enterprise has behind it a team of the ablest brains in this country.'including not a few Englishmen. I believe the preliminary investigations, which have been carried put in the strictest confidence, have been in progress for some months. Much spadework still remains to be done, but there is little doubt that it, will be successful.