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Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, KBE (19 April 1866 – 4 February 1939) was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and was its general manager for 36 years, from 1900 to 1936, and was also chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company.
Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert. 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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Aug 24, 2018 · In this well-written book Glyn Roberts describes the career of Deterding from a rather leftish (Marxist) point of view, and makes it no secret he dislikes the man and what he stands for. The reader follows Deterdings career from the Dutch East Indies to The Hague, Baku, and world power in London.
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Powerful Henri Deterding, Who Rivals Standard Oil; A Left-Wing Historian Surveys the Life and Activities of The Petroleum Baron THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD: The Life of Sir Henri...
Hendrix highlights how Deterding used his oil industry position to advance an anti-Soviet, anticommunist agenda, at one point even setting up his own secret service against the Comintern directed by former British director of military intelligence General Sir George MacDonough.
The career of Sir Henri Deterding shows that the tide will carry far one who has learned to swim. In his case it was a tide of oil. It carried him to the control of a world empire farther flung...
