The Most Powerful Man in the World

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Excerpt from The Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Sir Henri Deterding The profit seekers are usually in a position to exercise in fluence over their own Governments, and Governments regard the support of their profit seekers' activities in every part of the world as a highly important aim of public policy. The gain of one country is necessarily loss to others, its loss IS gain to them. Con¿ict is of the essence of the pursuit of power. R. G. Hawtrey, economic expert of the British Treasury, in Economic Aspects of Sovereignty. Nothing is won by fighting vaguely against war. The para mount thing is to combat the forces that make for war. The oil kings are today the most promising of these forces. Louis Fischer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.