Headline: Macho ado about Anglo’s choice of a woman CEO
Extract headline: Oil and airspace
Published: Oct 25, 2006
Nils Pratley
So, did Lord Browne choose to quash the market chat, written up here yesterday, about a mega-merger between BP and Shell? No he did not. “Looking at it from 50,000 feet, there are an awful lot of players here dealing with a lot of small pieces,” he said.
It wasn’t a comment about Shell or BP, just about the oil industry in general, but as a way of encouraging gossip it could hardly be bettered.
Many outsiders, whatever their altitude, think companies the size of BP have enough to do in dealing with their corroding, exploding and subsiding bits of kit. Lord Browne clearly feels otherwise. Perhaps he would like to see the rumour run. But does his chairman?
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1930679,00.html
This website and sisters royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
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: 
MORE DETAILS:
A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
