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Library of Congress
Hulton Deutsch
I Montagu Norman (above) was head of the
Bank of England during the first years of the
Federal Reserve. He is shown here in 1931
aboard the Duchess of York at Southampton.
Norman frequently traveled to the U.S. to
meet in secret with Benjamin Strong, head of
the Federal Reserve. Strong agreed to use the
Federal Reserve System to unofficially help
Great Britain meet its financial obligations, and
The crew of the Russian ship, Osliaba, posed for this photograph at Alexandria,
Virginia, in 1863. Tsar Alexander II had dispatched his Baltic fleet to Alexandria and
his Asiatic fleet to San Fransciso where they were committed to assist the Union
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blockade against the South. This had little to do with freeing the slaves. France ha