Sir Frederick Leith-Ross was born in 1897, was at Oxford University, and entered the Treasury in 1909, He was private secretary to Mr. Asquith, the former Prime Minister, and represented Britain onthe Finance Board of the Reparations Commission from 1920 10 1025, He was the negotiator of the financial agreement with the Egyptian Government in 1029, and was the printlpal British financial expert at the Hague Conferences of 1920 and 1930, He has been Deputy Controller of Finance in Hf. M, Treasury since 1925, and since 1982 has been Chief Economic "Adviser to the British Government. Prior to his mission China, in 1988, he proceeded to Berlin 10 initiate discussions between Britain and Germany as then affect ed by the German machinery for the "control of imports and the allocation of foreign exchange.
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