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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: flatsville who wrote (40484)9/28/2000 11:25:18 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
In 1934, a congressional investigation believed that Walker's Hamburg-America Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi efforts in both Germany and the United States. One of Walker's employees, Dan Harkins, delivered testimony to Congressional leaders regarding Walker's Nazi sympathies and business transactions. According to US Government Vesting Order No. 248, many of Union Banking's assets had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and had been used to support the German war effort.

The way this runs together it seems to be saying that Walker was supporting the German war effort in 1934. War did not break out until 1939......
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