Daily Telegraph: Shell paves way for merger
“Shell, which is trying to merge its UK and Dutch parts, has slashed the level of acceptances for shareholders in Royal Dutch Petroleum in an attempt to get the deal done.”
Saturday 9 July 2005
By Christopher Hope (Filed: 09/07/2005)
Shell, which is trying to merge its UK and Dutch parts, has slashed the level of acceptances for shareholders in Royal Dutch Petroleum in an attempt to get the deal done.
The news comes after the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas giant was criticised by British holders of Royal Dutch stock who are facing the possibility of a £77m capital gains tax bill because of the multi-billion merger with Shell Transport and Trading into a single company called Royal Dutch Shell.
Shell said yesterday that it “reserves the right (but is not obligated) to reduce the minimum percentage of Royal Dutch shares that must be submitted for exchange … from 95pc to in excess of 75pc”.
The new acceptance level is significantly lower than previously suggested by Shell and suggests Royal Dutch Shell will forced to make a cash offer – known as a Dutch squeeze-out – for a sizeable rump of Royal Dutch Petroleum shares.
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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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