ABSTRACT
XXI The Great Depression; commodity restriction schemes; tea; rubber; sugar; tin; banking competition in the East; the acquisition of the P. & O. Banking Corporation; new branches opened: the ‘New Consortium'; the Court of Directors: the
Bank’s charterTHE volume of international trade in the year 1933 measured in terms of gold was hardly more than a third of its value in 1929. Those are the bare statistics of the great depression, but behind those statistics stand the want and
misery and malaise which surrendered to the desperate remedy of war.
