He had been captured in the British zone of occupied Germany after the war but was allowed to go free.
HSBC's capital ratio is likely to remain more resilient through the British and euro zone recessions when compared with other banks that have been forced to raise capital from governments, he added.
It is not after all in British interests to undermine the euro zone, whose troubles remain a paramount concern for the British economy.
Nine (mainly European) governments have proffered a total of 5, 500 people to help the British run a southern Iraqi zone: some are already there, and the others are due to turn up later this summer.
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Around 20 countries have pledged to support Poland, which should itself have some 2, 300 people in Iraq by next month, and is supposed to take charge of a zone between the British one and the American one in Baghdad.
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Opposing the bill, government spokeswoman Baroness Wilcox said the UK was "far too small a nation to have within the British Isles more than one time zone".
In a recent series of meetings in Washington and London, French officials told their American and British counterparts that the threat "zone is evolving" as Mali militants have increasingly moved out of reach.
But Britain is highly unlikely to leave the European Union, and although there may be political tensions between the euro zone and Britain, British access to European markets is supposed to be guaranteed by European law.
Seven of the top 10 British export markets are in the euro zone.
Beyond that, France has made no secret of its desire for decision-making among the 17 euro-zone members and sidelining the British.
So at the other end of the spectrum is a more modest intervention - perhaps an extended version of the air strikes that currently accompany the US and British policing of the no-fly zone, but with greater use of special forces to target suspected weapons depots and military installations.
Days earlier in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the French president and German chancellor, had all but given Britain an ultimatum: accept their plan to rewrite the laws of the EU, or prompt the 17 members of the euro zone to seek a separate deal and risk British isolation.
Diplomats were surprised by the fact that U.S and British aircraft bombed targets that are outside the no-fly zone.
Many of the American, British and other foreign workers based there never leave the Green Zone during their entire posting in the country.
Brigadier Gordon Messenger, a spokesman for the British military, conceded on the Today programme that the security zone in the Sangin valley is just "several square kilometres" in size but added that this provides a haven for the local population.
British and U.S. warplanes also patrol a no-fly zone in the north of Iraq.
Fitzsimons, Mr McGuigan and Mr Hoare had all been working for British security firm ArmorGroup, based in the Iraqi capital's fortified Green Zone, at the time of the shooting.
Mr Fitzsimons, Mr McGuigan and Mr Hoare had all been working for British security firm ArmorGroup, based in the Iraqi capital's fortified Green Zone, at the time of the shooting.
Convergence, in essence, is a question of the costs to the British economy of having the same short-term interest rates as the euro-zone.
But European politicians' interference is not yet egregious enough to discourage the British and American private-equity firms that are becoming an increasing presence in the euro zone.
British officials privately concede that they are worried about retaining their influence from outside the euro-zone.
It was written after a British submarine sank an Argentine cruiser, the Belgrano, that was sailing near the maritime exclusion zone on May 2nd, 1982.
In a different era, all this might have caused great worry in Britain and, as a result, generated even more tension within the EU. But the new British government, deeply hostile to further EU integration, seems content to stand aside even as the euro zone binds itself closer.
The debris mainly fell outside the "safe zone" to where most of the island's residents retreated after a 1995 eruption which devastated the British territory.
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