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Secret and Confidential reveals wartime finance tricks
Brigadier General Waters recounts Reginald McKenna’s bold 1910s decision to ship gold to New York to satisfy Allies, sparking Wall Street caution and later belief of a secret hoard. The author also shares anecdotes from the Dover defences theft to Boer War intelligence, and humorous London crowd moments.
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Reginald McKenna
W. H. H. Water
United States
McKenna
New York
Waters
Wall Street
Rystoa
Thia
Sterling Exchange
Europe
Asia
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Secret Service
W. E. Gladstone
Dover End Channel
Pall Mail
War Office
Aimont Seoring
Southampton
Madeira
Catherine Radaiwill
Wight
Cecil Rhodes
Haminger