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Extract from an article published by The Times on 23 April 2003 under the headline:
“A very British kind of scandal: why Shell is no Enron”:
“When the British Shell company merged with Royal Dutch in 1906 it was soon dominated by a single despot, Henri Deterding, a brilliant trader who became increasingly autocratic and ended up a fervent admirer of Hitler.”
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