It has hardly been suggested that this transaction was not honest: in any event I am clear it was. Mr. Simoes certainly impressed me with his bona fides throughout, and the documents submitted entirely bear him out. Nor was it coleurable: i.e. an attempt by these means to do something quite different. The shares were not a present to these men: it seems to me that it was a genuine attempt to give the men who had run the frm for what it was worth some return for the work and money they had put into it. Nor in face of the 28 contracts
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