ABSTRACT
During his childhood, Clarence Hatry had visited Zweibrucken whence his father Julius had emigrated to London in 1871, and, as a result, was aware of the sense of separateness and anti-Semitism which had contributed to the family’s decision to send Julius, his father, to London. His personal bankruptcy would long linger in the mind to justify doubts about his good standing. Although Julius had become a British subject by naturalisation, so that Clarence was born British, his German ancestry attracted comment during wartime. Hatry would then doubtless have demonstrated that the public documents had indeed complied with all the necessary disclosure requirements. In the 1940s, Hatry bought back George Greenfield’s shares in Hatchards Associated Interests when Greenfield reminded him of his promise. The challenge posed to Hatry by Arthur Collins was to reduce the cost of issuing local authority bonds.
