Daily Telegraph: Shell can be sure of strife
By Nina Montagu-Smith (Filed: 28/06/2004)
Oil giant Shell is preparing for a rough ride from shareholders at today’s annual meeting, at which institutional investor Isis plans to ask for greater clarification about its plans to improve corporate governance.
Although concern over such issues has been to the fore since Shell’s announcement in March that it had overstated its proven oil reserves by 20pc, shareholders are also upset about environmental issues and a £1m payoff for chairman Sir Philip Watts, who resigned in March.
Shell announced then that it would review its methods of corporate governance and report back to shareholders in November. It is expected to provide an update today.
Richard Singleton, Isis fund manager, said: “I am going to listen to what the board has to say about the progress of its corporate governance review but I felt the company’s announcement was sparser than it might have been.”
It emerged this weekend that “green” investment funds managed by Morley Asset Management and Investec Henderson Crossthwaite have sold shares in Shell because of concerns they have about environmental issues relating to the oil corporation’s activities in Africa, the United States and on an island off the Russian coast.
A spokesman for the oil group yesterday said: “We are in dialogue with shareholders and welcome comment from them.”
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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