Letter: Briefly… – Ethical investments
By: CANON CHRISTOPHER HALL
Published: Nov 17, 2006
Sir
The wife of the BBCs “Mr Ethical”, Justin Row Latt, is wrong to think that owning petroleum shares is wrong in itself (Pandora, 16 November).
It is ethical provided the holders use them to put pressure on the company to respect local communities and the environment. Shell shareholders have done so twice in 1997 and this year, when pounds 10bn-worth of shares defied the Board’s advice.
Disinvestment merely hands the shares over to those who only care about the size of their dividends.
CANON CHRISTOPHER HALL
ECUMENICAL COUNCIL FOR CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY,
BANBURY, OXFORDSHIRE
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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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