We are not surprised, for the big banks 'command,' as will be seen from the following example: on November one of the big Berlin 'D' banks (such is the name given to the four biggest banks whose names begin with the letter D) wrote to the Board of Directors of the German Central Northwest Cement Syndicate in the following terms: 'We learn, from the notice you published in the Reichsanzeiger of th instant, that the next general meeting of your company, fixed for the th of this month, may decide on measures which are likely to effect changes in your undertakings which we cannot sanction.