In his untiring work for peace and stability, to support good business, it is documented that the industrialist Ivar Kreuger, in periods, worked together with Aristide Briant (Nobel Peace Price, 1926, The Pan European Plan, 1930), Charles Dawes (Nobel Peace Price, 1925), Fridtjof Nansen (Nobel Peace Price, 1922),  Jean Monnet (father of the post war Unity of Germany and France), Coudenhove Kalergi (a well known pacifist of the thirties), de Monzie (head of The French – Russian Committee).
In his work for peace Ivar Kreuger most certainly met Albert Einstein who in February 1932 held speeches in the USA (St. Barbara, Pasadena etc) proposing a sudden disarmament of all national states and the foundation of a super national peace keeping force.
At exactly the same time Ivar Kreuger met President Hoover in the White House discussing the moratorium for the still democratic Germany, explaining "his" plan for the peaceful European recovery and reconstruction after the devastating First World War. 

The fabulous loan program of Ivar Kreuger, stabilizing the biggest European states, were the backbone of the Einstein proposals but was not at all in the like of Joseph Stalin, who himself, as the de facto soviet dictator, in April 1928 turned down a most generous loan offer from the Kreuger Trust in association with, among others, Lee, Higginson & Co., National City Company, Guaranty Trust of New York, Dillon, Read & Co., Brown Brothers & Co., Clark Dodge & Co., N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Deutsche Bank, Warburg & Co., Mendelssohn & Co., Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft, Hope & Co., Schweizerischer Bankverein, Banque de Commerce de Bâle, Pictet & Cie, Société Générale de Belgique– a one billion dollar, low interest loan, the biggest loan offer in history!

The generous methods of Ivar Kreuger were dangerous and the enemies were too strong.
An unholy alliance formed across the Atlantic – the alliance of Bolshevistic and Super Capitalistic forces. 
Within Europe an alliance of bankers, in cooperation with militant communists and fascists, formed.
On 12 March 1932, the funeral day of Aristide Briant, Ivar Kreuger were found dead in his apartment, opposite Grand Palais, in Paris.
Many hours before the world were informed of this, the biggest sale order in Wall Street history came in from Paris. 
At that day, the European Peace were buried too.

Albert Einstein lived on and had to realize that his work for peace had to focus on the nuclear power and the old philosophy of power - first a total war, then an eternal peace.

During the roaring twenties Kreuger and Einstein most certainly met, in the company of other peace loving personalities.
Kreuger often arranged meetings in total secrecy, outside the limelight, for people representing brilliance and economical power.
There are records of Ivar Kreugers powers to study in archives all over the world and the records of Albert Eintein is good enough.

Together Albert Einstein and Ivar Kreuger were all too strong - at least one of them had to be eliminated. 

Other Nobel Peace Price winners during the twenties: Sir Austen Chamberlain,  Gustav Stresemann, Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde and Frank B. Kellog.

Tomas Brusell

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