Добыча

99

«Юнион Джек» (англ.) – флаг Великобритании. – Прим. пер.

100

Гилдхолл (англ.) – здание ратуши в Лондоне. – Прим. пер.

101

Мэншн-Хаус (англ.) – резиденция лорд-мэра. – Прим. пер.

102

Gerretson, Royal Dutch, vol. 2, pp. 187–88 («not… worth a white tie»), 244–45 («rightly and fairly»); Henriques, Marcus Samuel, pp. 436–41 (Lane's critique), 446–52 («rage,» «ten Lord Mayors» and «Twenty-one years»), 470.

103

Gerretson, RoyalDutch, vol. 2, pp. 298–301 («seize one's opportunities»), 345–46 (Deterding and Samuel); Henriques, Marcus Samuel, pp. 495 («disappointed man»), 509 («genius»); Mira Wilkins, The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970), p. 83; Henriques, Waley Cohen, pp. 129–48, chaps. 8–10; Deterding, International Oilman, p. 114 («our chairman»).

104

Gerretson, RoyalDutch, vol. 3, pp. 303 («wipe us out»), 297–98 («1 am sorry»), 307 («To America!»); Kendall Beaton, Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957), pp. 123 («Oil Capital»), 126 («we are in America!»).

105

Geoffrey Jones and Clive Trebilcock, «Russian Industry and British Business, 1916–1930: Oil and Armaments,» journal of European Economic History 11 (Spring 1982), pp. 68–69 («too hurried development»); Serge Witte, The Memoirs of Count Witte, trans, and ed. Abraham Yarmolinsky (Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), pp. 27–29, 125, 198 («imported mediums»), 183 (««Byzantine» habits»), 247 («tangle»), 279; Theodore Von Laue, Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia (New York: Atheneum, 1974), pp. 255, 122–23, 250; A. A. Fursenko, Neftyanye Tresty i Mirovaia politika (Moscow: Nauka, 1965), pp. 42–43. О беспорядках в Баку см. Richard Hare, Portraits of Russian Personalities Between Reform and Revolution (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), pp. 305; Tolf, Russian Rockefellers, pp. 151–55 («revolutionary hotbed»); Adam B. Ulam, Stalin: The Man and His Era (New York: Viking, 1973), pp. 37, 59–60; Isaac Deutscher, Stalin: A Political Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), p. 47; Ronald G. Suny, «A Journeyman for the Revolution: Stalin and the Labour Movement in Baku,» Soviet Studies 23 (January 1972), p. 393.

106

Witte, Memoirs, pp. 189 («monkeys»), 250 («Russia's internal situation»); Deutscher, Stalin, p. 66 («hour of revenge»); Solomon M. Schwarz, The Russian Revolution of 1905: The Workers' Movement and the Formation of Bokhevikism and Menshevikism, trans. Gertrude Vaka (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), pp. 301–14; Adam B. Ulam, The Bolsheviks & the Intellectual (New York: Collier Books, 1965), pp. 219, 227; J. D. Henry, Baku, pp. 157–59 (Adamoff), 183–184 («flames»); K. H. Kennedy, Mining Tsar: The Life and Times of Leslie Urquhart, (Boston: Alien & Unwin, 1986), chaps. 2 and 3; Gerretson, RoyalDutch, vol. 3, p. 138; Hidy and Hidy. Standard Oil, p. 511; Ulam, Stalin, pp. 89–98; Suny, «Stalin,» pp. 394, 386 («unlimited distrust»).

107

A. Beeby Thompson, The Oil Fields of Russia (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1908), pp. 195–97, 213; Maurice Pearton, Oil and the Romanian State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 1–45; Tolf, Russian Rockefellers, pp. 183–85; Lane to Aron, December 21, 1911 («I can assure you»), December 13, 1911 («his intention»), Rothschild papers; V. I. Bovykin, «Rossiyskaya Neft i Rotshil'dy',» Voprosy Istorii 4 (1978), pp. 27–41; Suny, «Stalin,» p. 373 («journeyman for the revolution»).

108

Henry Drummond Woolf, Rambling Recollections, vol. 2 (London: Macmillan, 1908), p. 329 («well versed»); Charles Issawi, ed., The Economic History of Iran, 1800–1914 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), p. 20 (Persian finances); R. W. Ferrier, The History of the British Petroleum Company, vol. 1, The Developing Years, 1901–1932 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 28 («Shah's prodigality»); T. A. B. Corky, A History of the Burmah Oil Company, 1886–1927 (London: Heinemann, 1983); Geoffrey Jones, The State and the Emergence of the British Oil Industry (London: Macmillan, 1981). The books by Ferrier, Corley, and Jones – all making extensive use of corporate and government archives – are the best works on their respective subjects.

109

Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 29 («capitalist»), 31 («riches»), 35–36 («morning coffee»). On D'Arcy, see ibid., pp. 30–32; Corky, Burmah Oil, pp. 96–97; Henry Longhurst, Adventure in Oil: The Story of British Petroleum (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1959), pp. 18–19, 25; David J.Jeremy and Christine Shaw, eds., Dictionary of Business Biography (London: Butterworths, 1984), vol. 2, pp. 12–14. On the de Reuter concessions, see Firuz Kazemzadeh, Russia and Britain in Persia, 1864–1914 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968), pp. 100–34, 210–14.

110

Kazemzadeh, Russia and Britain in Persia, pp. 3 («chessboard»), 8, 22 («Insurance»), 325–28 («ragamuffins»); Arthur H. Hardinge, A Diplomatist in the East (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928), pp. 280 («elderly child»), 268 («vassalage»), 328 («detestable»); Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 39 («ready money»), 43 («no umbrage»); Hardinge to Lansdowne, January 29, 1902, FO 60/660, PRO («Cossacks»); Briton Cooper Busch, Britain and the Persian Gulf (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), chap. 4 and pp. 235–42.

111

Issawi, Economic History of Iran, p. 41 («far-reaching effects» and «soil of Persia»); Jones, State and British Oil pp. 131–32; Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 43 («wild-catting»), 107.

112

Hardinge, Dipbmatist, pp. 281, 273–74 («Shiahs»), 306–11; Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 57 («expedite»), 65 («heat,» «Mohamedan Kitchen» and «Mullahs»).

113

Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 59–62 («Every purse» and «keep the bank quiet»); Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 97–99 («eminence grise»), 133; Corky, Burmah Oil pp. 98–103 («Glorious news»).

114

Kazemzadeh, Russia and Britain in Persia, pp. 442–44 («menace» and «Monroe Doctrine»). Lansdowne to Curzon, December 7, 1903, FO 60/731 («danger»); Cargill to Redwood, October 6, 1904, ADM 116/3807, PRO. Corley, Burmah Oil, pp. 99–102 («imperial,» «patriots» and «coincided exactly»); Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 133–34 («British hands»).

115

A. R. С Cooper, «A Visit to the Anglo-Persian Oil-Fields,» Jornal of the Central Asian Society, 13 (1926), pp. 154–56 («thousand pities»); Kazemzadeh, Russia and Britain in Persia, pp. 444–445; Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 67, 86 («beer and skittles»), 79 («dung» and «teeth»); Arnold Wilson, S. W. Persia: A Political Officer's Diary, 1907–14 (London: Oxford University Press, 1941), p. 112.

116

Wilson, S. W. Persia, p. 27 («dignified» and «solid British oak»); Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 79 («reasonable» and «beasts»), 96 («type machine»), 73; Corley, Burmah Oil, p. 110 («amuse me»).

117

Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 80–85 («luxury of Monarchs»); Gene R. Garthwaite, «The Bakhtiar Khans, the Government of Iran, and the British, 1846–1915,» International Journal of Middle East Studies 3 (1972), pp. 21–44; Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 83 («nightingale» and «Baksheesh»), 85 («importance attached»). Harold Nicolson, Portrait of a Diplomatist (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930), p. 171 («spontaneous infiltration»); Spring-Rice to Grey, April 11, 1907, FO 416/32, PRO («great impetus»); Kazemzadeh, Russia and Britain in Persia, pp. 475–500.

118

Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 86–88 («last throw,» «cannot find» and «Psalm 104»), 96 («stupid action»); Corley, Burmah Oil, pp. 128–39 («go smash,» «abandon operations,» «telling no one» and «may be modified»); Wilson, S. W. Persia, pp. 41–42 («endure heat»).

119

Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 105–6 («making public,» «corns» and «immense benefit»), 98 («great mistake»), 103 («signing away»), 113 («just as keen»). While Ferrier places the value of D'Arcy's shares at £895,000, Corley puts them at £650,000 – still a healthy return after all. Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 112 and Corley, Burmah Oil, p. 142. On Anglo-Persian's operations after the stock issue, see Wilson, S. W. Persia, pp. 84, 103 («spent a fortnight»), 211–12; Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 152–53 («one chapter»); Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 142, 144 («serious menace»), 147; Corley, Burmah Oil, p. 189 («hell of a mess»).

120

Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 59; John Arbuthnot Fisher, Memories (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919), pp. 156–57; Henriques, Marcus Samuel, pp. 399–402; John Arbuthnot Fisher, Fear God and Dread Nought: The Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, vol. 1, ed. Arthur J. Marder (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952), pp. 45, («oil maniac»), 275 («gold-mine» and «bought the south half»).

121

Fisher, Memories, p. 116 («God-father of Oil»); Arthur J. Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904–1919, vol. 1, The Road to War, 1904–1914 (London: Oxford University Press, 1961), pp. 14 («mixture»), 205 («tornado»), 19 (Edward VII), 45; Fisher, Fear God, vol. 1, pp. 102 («Full Speed»), 185 («Wake up»); Ruddock F. Mackay, Fisher of Kilverstone (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973), p. 268 («Golden rule»); R. H. Bacon, The Life of Lord Fisher (Garden City: Doubleday, 1929), vol. 2, pp. 157–59.

122

Paul M. Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982), pp. 416 («naval question»), 417 («freedom»), 457 («strident»), 221–29 («world domination,» «mailed fist» and «weary Titan»); Zara S. Steiner, Britain and the Origins of the First World War (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977), pp. 40–57, 127; Samuel Williamson, The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904–1914 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), pp. 16, 18.

123

Winston Spenser Churchill – «S» – 19-я буква английского алфавита, «С» – 3-я буква английского алфавита. – Прим. ред.

124

William H. McNeil, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since a.d. 1000 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), p. 277 («technological revolution»); Marder, Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, vol. 1, pp. 71, vii, 139 («pensions»); Williamson, Politics of Grand Strategy, pp. 236, 238. О внутренней политике Германии см. Volker Berghahn, «Naval Armaments and the Social Crisis: Germany Before 1914,» in Geoffrey Best and Andrew Wheatcraft, eds., War, Economy, and the Military Mind (London: Groom Held, 1976), pp. 61–88. Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 1, Youth, 1874–1900 (London: Heinemann, 1966), pp. 1888–89.

125

Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 2, Young Statesman, 1901–1917 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967), pp. 494 («nonsense»), 518–19 («Indeed»).

126

Churchill, Young Statesman, pp. 545–47 («whole fortunes»); Churchill, World Crisis, vol. 1, pp. 71–78 («intended to prepare,» «important steps» and «veritable volcano»); Fisher, Memories, pp. 200–1 («precipice»); Henriques, Marcus Samuel, p. 283; Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 2, Companion Volume, part 3, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969), p. 1926 («How right»).

127

Churchill, Churchill, vol. 2, Companion Volume, part 3, pp. 1926–27.

128

Fisher, Fear God, vol. 2, p. 404 («Sea fighting»); Churchill, World Crisis, vol. 1, pp. 130–36 (on his decision).

129

Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 158; Jones, State and British Oil p. 170; Corley, Burmah Oil Company, p. 186; Fisher, Fear God, vol. 2, pp. 451 («betrayed»), 467 («no one else»); Mackay, Fisher, pp. 437–38; Churchill, Young Statesman, pp. 567–68; Churchill, Churchill, vol. 2, Companion Volume, part 3, p. 1929 («My dear Fisher»).

130

Fisher, Memories, pp. 218–20 («d – d fool»); Lord Fisher, Records (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919), p. 196; Mackay, Fisher, p. 439 («overwhelming advantages»); Fisher, Fear God, vol. 2, p. 438 («don't grow»).

131

Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 94 («Champagne Charlie» and «decorous»); Jeremy and Shaw, Dictionary of Business Biography, vol. 2, pp. 639–41; Corley, Burmah Oil, pp. 184, 205; Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 96 («Old Spats»), 151–52 («Jewishness,» «Dutchness,» «under the control» and «moderate return»).

132

Bacon, Fisher, vol. 2, p. 158 («do our d – st»); Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 164 («embracing as it did» and «pecuniary assistance»), 151 («Shell menace»); Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 170–73 («commercial predominance» and «Evidently»).

133

Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 166–67 («speculative risk»); Marian Kent, Oil and Empire: British Policy and Mesopotamian Oil, 1900–1920 (London: Macmillan, 1976), pp. 47–48 («keeping alive»); Churchill, Churchill, vol. 2, Companion Volume, part 3, pp. 1932–48; Corley, Burmah Oil, p. 191; Asquith to George V, July 12, 1913, CAB 41/34, PRO («controlling interest»); Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 181–82.

134

. Parliamentary Debates, Commons, July 17, 1913, pp. 1474–77 (Churchill statement); Corley, Burmah Oil, pp. 187, 191–95 («scrap heap»); Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 195–96 («thoroughly sound,» «perfectly safe» and «national disaster»).

135

Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 185; Corley, Burmah Oil, pp. 195–97; Churchill, Churchill, vol. 2, Companion Volume, part 3, p. 1964.

136

. Parliamentary Debates, Commons, June 17, 1914, pp. 1131–53, 1219–32; Bradbury to Anglo-Persian Oil Company, May 20, 1914, POWE 33/242, PRO; Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 199 (Greenway's question).

137

Henriques, Marcus Samuel, p. 574; Churchill, Churchill, vol. 2, Companion Volume, part 3, pp. 1951 («Napoleon and Cromwell»), 1965 («Good Old Deterding), Gerretson, Royal Dutch, vol. 4, p. 293.

138

Gerretson, Royal Dutch, vol. 4, p. 185; Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 144, 12 («premier cru»); Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 196; Churchill, World Crisis, p. 137; Churchill, Churchill, vol. 2, Companion Volume, part 3, p. 1999 (war order).

139

William Langer, «The Well-Spring of Our Discontents,» Journal of Contemporary History 3 (1968), pp. 3–17; McNeill, Pursuit of Power, pp. 334–35; Martin Van Creveld, Supplying War: Logistics from Walknstein to Patton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), pp. 110–111, 124–25 (German general); W. G. Jensen, «The Importance of Energy in the First and Second World Wars,» Historical Journal 11 (1968), pp. 538–45. Llewellyn Woodward, Great Britain and the War of 1914–1918 (London: Metheun, 1967), pp. 38–39.

140

Coups de téléphone (фр.) – телефонный удар. – Прим. пер.

141

Basil Liddell Hart, A History of the World War, 1914–1918 (London: Faber and Faber, 1934), chap. 4, especially pp. 86–87, 115–22 («No British officer,» «coups de telephone,» «not commonplace» and «forerunner»); Henri Carre', La Veritable Histoire des Taxis de La Marne (Paris: Libraire Chapelot, 1921), pp. 11–39 («How will we be paid?»); Robert B. Asprey, The First Battle of the Marne (Westport, Conn.; Greenwood Press, 1977), pp. 127 («Today destiny»), 153 («going badly»).

142

Caterpillar (англ.) – гусеница. – Прим. пер.

143

Woodward, Great Britain and the War of 1914–1918, pp. 38–39 («This isn't war»); Liddell Hart, The World War, pp. 332–43 («antidote,» «eyewitness,» «black day» and «primacy»); Erich Ludendorff, My War Memories, 1914–1918 (London: Hutchinson, [1945]), p. 679; J. F. С Fuller, Tanks in the Great War, 1914–1918 (London: John Murray, 1920), p. 19 («present war»); Churchill, World Crisis, vol. 2, (New York: Scribners, 1923) pp. 71–91 («caterpillar»… «tank»); A. J. P. Taylor, English History, 1914–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 122; Francis Delaisi, Oil: Its Influence on Politics, trans. С Leonard Leese (London: Labour Publishing and George Allen and Unwin, 1922), p. 29 (truck over the locomotive).

144

Liddell Hart, The World War, pp. 457–460 («good sport»), 554–59; Harald Penrose, British Aviation: The Great War and Armistice, 1915–1919 (London: Putnam, 1969), pp. 9–12 («Since war broke out»), 586 («necessities of war»); Bernadotte E. Schmitt and Harold С Vedeler, The World in the Crucible, 1914–1919 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), pp. 301–4 («Battle of Britain»); Jensen, «Energy in the First and Second World Wars,» pp. 544–45; Richard Hough, The Great War at Sea, 1914–1918 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 296–97.

145

F. J. Moberly, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: The Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914–1918 (London: HMSO, 1923), vol. 1, p. 82 («little likelihood»); Ferrier, British Petroleum, p. 263 («build up»); Kent, Oil and Empire, pp. 125–26; Corley, Burmah Oil, pp. 239, 253 («All-British Company»); Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 182–83.

146

Corley, Burmah Oil, p. 258, chap. 16; Henriques, Marcus Samuel, pp. 593–619; Henriques, Waky Cohen, pp. 200–40; P. G. A. Smith, The Shell That Hit Germany Hardest (London: Shell Marketing Co., [1921]), pp. 1–11; Jones, State and British Oil, pp. 187–202; Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 250, 218 («to secure navy supplies»); Slade, «Strategic Importance of the Control of Petroleum,» «Petroleum Supplies and Distribution» and «Observations on the Board of Trade Memorandum on Oil,» August 24, 1916, CAB 37/154, PRO.

147

Henriques, Waky Cohen, pp. 213–20; Times (London), January 14, 1916, p. 5; May 26, 1916, p. 5; G. Gareth Jones, «The British Government and the Oil Companies, 1912–24: The Search for an Oil Policy,» Historical Journal 20 (1977), pp. 654–64; С. Ernest Fayle, Seaborne Trade, vol. 3, The Period of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (London: John Murray, 1924), pp. 465, 175–76, 319, 371, 196–97; George Gibb and Evelyn H. Knowlton, History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), vol. 2, The Resurgent Years, 1911–1927 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956), pp. 221–23; Beaton, p. 100.

148

Jones, «British Government and the Oil Companies,» pp. 661, 665; Paul Foley, «Petroleum Problems of the War: Study in Practical Logistics,» United States Naval Institute Proceedings 50 (November 1927), pp. 1802–03 («out of action»), 1817–21; Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (London: Heinemann, 1930), vol. 2, p. 288 («Germans are succeeding»); Ferrier, British Petroleum, pp. 248–49 (Walter Long); Henry Bérenger, Le Pétrole et la France (Paris: Flammarion, 1920), pp. 41–55; Edgar Faure, La Politique Franchise du Pétrole (Paris: Nouvelle Revue Critique, 1938), pp. 66–69; Pierre L'Espagnol de la Tramerye, The World Struggle for Oil, trans. Leonard Leese (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1924), chap. 8; Eriс D. K. Melby, Oil and the International System: The Case of France, 1918–1969 (New York: Arno Press, 1981), pp. 8–20 («as vital as blood»).

149

Mark L. Requa, «Report of the Oil Division 1917–19» in H. A. Garfield, Final Report of the U. S. Fuel Administrator (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1921), p. 261; Gerald D. Nash, United States Oil Policy, 1890–1964 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968), p. 27. On American oil policy making during World War I, see Dennis J. O'Brien, «The Oil Crisis and the Foreign Policy of the Wilson Administration, 1917–1921» (Ph.D.: University of Missouri, 1974), chaps. 1–2 and Robert D. Cuff, The War Industries Board: Business-Government Relations During World War I (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973).

150

Joseph E. Pogue and Isador Lubin, Prices of Petroleum and Its Products During the War (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1919), pp. 13–33, 289; Rister, Oil! pp. 120–34. On the coal shortage, see David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 122–24 («Bedlam») and Seward W. Livermore, Politics Is Adjourned: Woodrow Wilson and the War Congress, 1916–18 (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1966), pp. 68–69, 86–88. Requa, «Report of the Oil Division,» p. 270 («no justification»); White, Standard Oil of California, p. 542. For auto growth, see Beaton, Shell, p. 171; White, Standard of California, p. 544. H. A. Garfield, Final Report of the U. S. Fuel Administrator, p. 8 («walk to church»).

151

Ludendorff, War Memories, pp. 287–88 («As I now saw»), 358–59 («did materially»); Liddell Hart, The World War, pp. 345–50; Schmitt and Vedeler, World in the Crucible, pp. 157–60; Times (London), December 5, 1916, p. 7; Pearton, Oil and the Romanian State, pp. 79–85 («No efforts»); Gibb and Knowlton, Standard Oil, vol. 2, pp. 233–35. On Norton-Griffiths, see R. K. Middlemas, The Master-Builders (London: Hutchinson, 1963), pp. 270–83 («dashing,» nicknames and «blasted language»); Mrs. Will Gordon, Romania Yesterday and Today (London: John Lane, 1919), chap. 9 («sledgehammer»); New York Times, January 16, 1917, p. 1; February 20, 1917, p. 4. О влиянии на Германию см. Fayle, Seaborne Trade, vol. 3, pp. 180–81 («just the difference»). После войны Джон Нортон-Гриффитс получил признание как «самый известный инженер в мире» и подрядчик. В 1930 г. он руководил проектом по возведению Асуанской плотины. У него возник конфликт с египетскими представителями из-за марки заказанной им стали, из-за чего на него мог быть наложен весьма значительный штраф – с вероятными последствиями для его профессиональной репутации. По своему обыкновению, утром в 7.45 27 сентября 1930 г. он взял парусную лодку у своей гостиницы в Сан-Стефано, около Александрии, и вышел на веслах в море. Через некоторое время его коллега выглянул из гостиницы и увидел, что лодка Нортона-Гриффитса пуста. Очевидцы видели плывущего или держащегося на поверхности человека невдалеке от лодки. Другая лодка, отправленная на прояснение ситуации, обнаружила тело. Это был «Имперский Джек» – «человек с кувалдой», с пулевой раной на правом виске – самоубийство. Times (London), September 28, 1930, p. 12; September 29, 1930, p. 14; New York Times, September 28, 1930, II, p. 8, September 29, 1930, p. 11.