and harry dexter white said, you know, our boys are fighting the germans while mckitrick is doing business with them which is absolutely true. so towards the end of the war, the bis also accepted a substantial amount of nazi gold and did a lot of foreign be exchange deals for the rice bank, so it was a fairly compromised institution but, again, compromised with the full knowledge of the state department, bank of england, the treasury and everybody else. so there was a lot of pressure to shut the bank down. they're saying we're going to build a new global economic system to run the global economy after the war. we don't want this tainted institution anymore. but they, what ended up happening was that a resolution was passed saying the bank should be shut down at the earliest possible moment. but when's that? no date was set. so the bank survived. and one of the things the bis is brilliant at doing and has been since it's been born in the 1930s is reinventing itself. so after the war there was the sense -- and there's an argument for this. look, we've got to get the global economy up and run