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From the Times:

Barclays eagle is causing a flap after 317 years

Barclays is poised to drop its 317-year-old eagle logo in response to concerns from ABN Amro, its Dutch merger partner, that the design has Nazi connotations. Sources close to the British bank said that it had come under pressure to scrap the logo. "It is rather a Teutonic looking eagle and has unfortunate connotations," one insider said. Barclays, which has already agreed to move its head office to Amsterdam as the price of its proposed £96 billion merger deal, is instead preparing to adopt ABN's stylised heraldic shield worldwide. Many in the Netherlands, which was occupied for five years during the Second World War, are deeply sensitive to Nazi imagery.

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