ABSTRACT

India; changes at Head OfficeWHAT people were able to persuade them­ selves for a few happy days after the Munich Agreement was a reprieve that was all too soon evidently nothing more than a respite, and war was recognized

as inevitable. During those anxious twelve months before the Germans swept into Poland the Chartered Bank prepared for the worst. The position of the Bank was reinforced in order to stand up to the shocks, the stresses and the strains inseparable from the outbreak of war.