Berliner Tageblatt: Demented resignation rumours about Sir Henry Deterding. 30 June 1936
AMSTERDAM, 30 Juni.
“Amsterdam Standard” announces that Sir Henry Deterding, the head of Royal Dutch, intends to resign from his post and settle in Holland. Sir Henry Deterding recently bought the country estate of the Kroller family in Wassenaar.
LONDON, June 30th
Upon request, we are informed of the Shell Trade and Shipping Co., the English trading company of the Royal Dutch Group, who dispensed rumours circulating in Holland of a retreat from Sir Henry Deterding’s active business life.