Talk:Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman

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In Oscar Kokoschka's famous painting "What we are fighting for", he drew Montagu Norman and Hjalmar Schacht sarcastically. Kokoschka explained his drawing in that he thinks Norman and Schacht to be irresponsible capitalists before the World War. Is that true? Or are Norman and Schacht rather some spiritual leader of the 20th century economic revolution? Wayne7749 09:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I find the pro-nasti "assumption" rude, and insulting. He helped in many many transactions, including some at the USA FED. Not only that, two transactions went thru, and the third was stopped. This is exactly how banking works even today! He clearly approached England, and let them know it was going on, and he might have even asked them to stop it. But, clearly the transactions were reported as suspicious. (duh). This is just best guess, but even today, suspicious transactions are noted and reported, but also carried out. It is very difficult to undo financial transactions from 60, or 70 years ago, the money is gone. Lets put it this way, there are a million transactions an hour going thur a check-21 solution provider, some of those are likely to be offensive. Doesnt mean the US government supports the nonsense. If you are bound and determined to hate bankers, then ask yourself why leave the gold standard. There you might find a reason not to like the guy (lol). 68.226.162.229 (talk) 13:21, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Death by falling over a sitting cow?
On December 15, 2009, BBC had a fact on its main page, stating that Montagu Norman died by falling over a sitting cow. To write this unreferenced would be seen as vandalism, no doubt, so it has understandably been reverted to death by stroke - which is also unreferenced - but is more palatable to read. The BBC had it in its "QI: Fact of the Day". Those unfamiliar with QI should read the wikipedia article. The point is, it's likely to have been thoroughly researched by the QI "elves". Unfortunately, I can find no permanent reference to it anywhere on the Internet. Can anyone find a permanent source for it?

Alex Holowczak (talk) 12:48, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Returning the Pound to Gold Standard
Norman was instrumental in persuading Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, to return to the Gold Standard. There seems to be a consensus, as well as bitter recriminations from Churchill, that this overvalued Sterling and consequently had a devastating impact on trade and manufacturing, leading to trouble in the UK, culminating in the General Strike 1926, which brought Britain to the brink of revolution. There are also indications that Britain's troubles led the Fed in the US to inflationary 'easy money' policies (lowering of the discount rate) to ease pressure on London. This attempt to help Montagu might therefore have inadvertently led to the boom, and subsequently, the Stock Market Crash of 1929. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.81.227.196 (talk) 08:03, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Colin Norman, Bt?
The article in its current form states, under the heading Personal Life, "Lord Norman and Cecilia had one child, Colin Norman, who inherited his father's baronetcy". The article makes no mention of any baronetcy being awarded to the subject (Montagu Norman). I haven't searched extensively, but I can find no information on a Norman baronetcy that could be applicable here.

The article does however note that he was "raised to the peerage as Baron Norman", and in the table near to the foot of the article, it further notes that this barony was a new creation when Norman assumed it, and that it became extinct upon his death – i.e., Norman was not survived by any male issue --BirdInitials (talk) 21:01, 7 July 2019 (UTC)