The Star.com: Royal Dutch/Shell close to shake-up
Saturday July 10, 2004
LONDON: Some of the most powerful figures within the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies are willing to concede shareholder demands for a unified board and a clearer management structure, the Financial Times reported, citing several people close to the situation.
Such a move would mark the end of a century-old governance structure whose effectiveness has been called into question by investors in the wake of the Anglo-Dutch oil group’s reserves crisis, the newspaper said.
While observers warn that the company has yet to make a final decision on a governance shake-up, senior insiders are said to favour a move to unite its dual-board structure of Dutch and British arms, as well as addressing the issue of replacing its management committee with a more conventional structure under a chief executive, the article added.
“Small sub-groups of the review committee are meeting shareholders and continuing our dialogue with them. This is progressing well,” the oil giant is reported as saying. It declined to comment on details of the talks.
The development comes as members of the five-man committee charged with changing the governance structure have embarked on a series of face-to-face meetings in an attempt to soothe investor concerns over the pace and remit of an internal structural review. – AFX-Asia
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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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