Show Dummy Accounts Cant Can't Be Hidden Were Vere several of New Yorks York's Swiss bankers free to talk they could provide the tabloid press with enough financial trivia for a standing feature Most of the fi financial financial financial fi- fi high jinks r revolve volve around the efforts of European depositors to make a little something on their American deposits without betraying betraying betraying be be- identity of foreign owners One firm for example has heavy stocks of Slovakian Czecho-Slovakian money which represents a section cross of German and Italian sanctuary funds together with that of Czech officials who got theirs out in time These deposits under dummy accounts accounts accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts are earning a mere of 1 I r per cent interest Instructions have come th that t within limitations certain investments might be made The catch lies in placing the money either in securities or equities equities equities equi equi- ties in such a manner that even the contingency of f United States participation in the war will not force betrayal of the owner In going over the lists of possible possible possible pos pos- sible investments the United States agents were hard put to find a single line Une of business or stocks where the federal bureau of in investigation investigation investigation in- in for one couldn't force identification if war provided a cause The banks having so in informed informed informed in- in formed the European principals the exchange of correspondence became became became be be- came such a danger to the Czechs that they wired vired Instructions to skip it Copyright 1940 McClure Syndicate |