2 DECEMBER 1989, Page 27

Double barrel

THE Banque de l'Indochine et de Suez, now Indosuez for short, was the suitor in Morgan's disfavour. Chancing to bump into John Craven on his way back from a day's shooting, I asked him why the French should have named a bank after their two biggest postwar disasters. He had the air of a man tucking an idea away in his cartridge belt. Now he can keep his powder dry.