EXTRACT: How about speaking Dutch (code for running Shell)?
“Nothing involving a foreign language,” he said.
THE ARTICLE
By Christopher Hope
(Filed: 26/07/2006)
BP chief Lord Browne of Madingley answered questions for an hour. But he had to wait until the very end for one about the oil company’s half-year results.
The big question for the man dubbed “the nearest thing British business has to a rock star” by a national newspaper yesterday morning was should he stay or should he go?
If the BP chief wanted to hang around for longer than 2008, he did well to hide it. “Even if I was asked to stay I would have declined. The company is not about one person and I have a very strong team,” he repeated, in different ways.
First he quoted Bette Midler (“Now that we have talked about me, let me hear about you. Now let’s change the subject”).
Then former Labour PM Jim Callaghan (“It would have been better if July had been cancelled”).
Finally Otto von Bismarck, who introduced retirement in the 1880s. “This idea, invented by Bismarck, is out of date and he is long gone.”
So what’s next for the greatest CEO of his generation? He quite liked the idea of earning a lot of money and then giving it all away, he said. But he was not going to become chairman or life president of BP.
“It is not a good idea,” he said, as he made for the exit. How about speaking Dutch (code for running Shell)? “Nothing involving a foreign language,” he said. Or a role in politics? “Politics are out,” he laughed.
Then he was gone. “It’s good to have clarity,” said Tony Hayward, one of several who might succeed him. But Lord Browne had posed more questions than he had answered.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
