A fifteen-year-old schoolboy now at Eton is to succeed to control of Scrutton's, wealthy City company of stevedores, who from 22 offices dotted along the banks of the Thamex handle shipping and cargo from all parts of the world, according to the "Daily Express."
The boy's father, Mr. Furse Fairfax Vidal Scrutton, of Nuffield, Surrey, who died last month, has left him all but fifty of his shares in Scrutton's, Ltd., under his will, Mr. Scrutton left £715,543 gross (net £698,776), paying death duty of £264,910.
Fifty of his shares go to his wife, with other bequests, and the remainder to his son on attaining thirty years of age. To his son he leaves £100,060 on trust for life, with remainder as he may appoint, and also the residue of his property when he reaches thirty.
The son, Philip Furse Scrutton, 1s shortly leaving Eton, but his future is not yet decided. ' His aunt, Mrs, Humphrey Polly, said: "It is- our hope and intention that he will act as head of the family business when he is old enough to take charge.
"If a lot of fuss is made about him now he'll probably get ragged by the other boys at Eton, perhaps thrown in the river to cool off."
Philip Serutton's father, who was only forty-four when he died, had succeeded to the family business only a little over a year before, on the death of his millionaire father, Frederic Scrutton.
Until I phoned the news to him in Paris, Erich Remarque, world-famous author of "All Quiet On The Western Front," didn't know he had been deprived of his German nationality.
"You are no longer a German citizen," I told him when my phone call connected, He was spending a holiday in Paris, though normally he lives at Ascona, Switzerland.
"Really?" he said, in a tone devoid of surprise. "I have not heard of it. No official communication has reached "I think in such cases the present German Government relies on the foreign Press, "No, I am not surprised, and I do not feel hurt, This affair has for a Jong time been something similar to April rain in England—one is sure it is due at any moment, but the only precaution one takes is to carry an umbrella, "Such a decision cannot hurt me.
"I suppose I shall have to ask for a Nansen passport, or something similar, issued to refugees who are homeless and country less, as I am.
"Plans? I'm writing a new book. It will contain no war, but will be a story of today—struggle, love, drama and comedy. plan a visit to London in August or September. I have no business projects there, but I like to come because England reminds me of the northern part of Germany, which used to be my country.
"Now that is no longer my country. But I am not particularly sad about it."
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