David Miliband
President and Chief Executive Officer, International Rescue Committee; former Secretary of State for
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom; Member of the Advisory Council, Munich
Security Conference, New York
'Born in Hungary, where he began his career, Sir Alexander Korda worked briefly in the Austrian and German film industries during the era of silent films, before being based in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930 '..
In Berlin he raised funding for the melodrama The Unknown Tomorrow (1923) , starring Werner Krauss, Olga Limburg and María Corda - Alexander's first wife.
"She began her acting career in the theatres of Budapest in the early days of WWI .. Her first role was in Se ki, se be in 1919, directed by the Hungarian director, Korda Sandor, who would come to be known as Alexander Korda."
" Konrad Heiden ( August 7, 1901 in Munich ; June 18, 1966 in New York City ) was a German - American journalist and political writer . He is best known for writing the first substantive biography of Adolf Hitler in 1936 ."..
"His mother died in September 1906. Konrad Heiden attended middle school in Frankfurt from 1908 to 1910, then the municipal Lessing-Gymnasium from 1911 to 1919. His father also died in January 1916. From then on he lived with various foster families." 🤔
In 1923, Konrad Heiden took a job as an assistant editor for Otto Groth , the Bavarian correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung (FZ), who taught him the basics of journalism.
At the time Siegfried Kracauer was the leading film and literature editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung (FZ) as its correspondent in Berlin, where he worked alongside Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch .
Wiki : "During the Weimar Republic, the FZ attracted hostility from nationalist circles because it had spoken out in favour of accepting the Treaty of Versailles in 1918. It was no longer in opposition to the government and supported Gustav Stresemann's policy of reconciliation"
"The Lombard Odier Group is an independent Swiss banking group based in Geneva..In 2006, Lombard, Odier, Darier, Hentsch & Cie joined the Henokiens, an association which brings together family-owned businesses with over 200 years of history.
"Thierry Lombard , Patrick Odier , Pierre Darier and Christophe Hentsch were included in the bank's partners until the departure of Pierre Darier in 2010." 🎶
"Warren Buffett (front left) arrives with Arnold Schwarzenegger (front right) at the Rothschilds' Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury (35 miles NW of London) for a conference of European business leaders, organised by NetJets"👀
"Warren Buffett & Arnold Schwarzenegger are met by Lord Jacob Rothschild as they arrive at the Waddesdon Manor, for a conference of European business leaders, organised by NetJets. * ... which sells fractional ownership of private business jets"🎶