The Most Powerful Man in the World: the Life of Sir Henri Deterding

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By Glyn Roberts

Covici Friede, 1938, 448 pp

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A Leftist biography of Sir Henri Deterding, the Dutchman who organized the British oil industry on its present world-wide scale. A success story in which the hero is portrayed as a pro-Fascist villain.

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