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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: flatsville who wrote (40682)	9/29/2000 12:00:51 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Larouchites fabricate. It is not up to me to prove them wrong.......By the way, if there were all of this damning material out there, why do you suppose that it is not universally acknowledged or used? There are plenty of people who would like to discredit Bush. Also, if Prescott were damnable as a Nazi sympathizer, how did he manage to get elected after the war? If the family were a bunch of fascist sympathizers, why did George volunteer for the Navy at 17? If Averell Harriman were in collusion with the Nazis, why did he work for FDR, and help promote Lend- Lease? Face it, you are peddling crap........

To: flatsville who wrote (40682)	9/29/2000 12:08:37 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Let's see, the Dulles are named as being among these perfidious crypto- Hitlerites: In World War II,John Foster Dulles helped prepare the United Nations charter at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C., and in 1945 served as a senior adviser at the San Francisco United Nations conference. When it became apparent that a peace treaty with Japan acceptable to the United States could not be concluded with the participation of the Soviet Union, President Harry Truman and his secretary of state, Dean Acheson, decided not to call a peace conference to negotiate the treaty. Instead, they assigned to Dulles the difficult task of personally negotiating and concluding the treaty. Dulles traveled to the capitals of many of the nations involved, and in 1951 the previously agreed to treaty was signed in San Francisco by Japan and 48 other nations. britannica.com When the United States entered World War II, Allen Dulles was recruited by Colonel William J. Donovan for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an intelligence service. From October 1942 to May 1945 he served as chief of the OSS office in Bern, playing, in particular, a notable role in the events that led to the surrender of German troops in northern Italy. britannica.com Gee, really sounds like the activities of some known Nazi sympathizers.......

To: flatsville who wrote (40682)	9/29/2000 12:11:51 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The son of the railroad magnate E.H. Harriman, W. Averell Harriman began his employment with the Union Pacific Railroad Company in 1915; he served as chairman of the board (1932-46). During the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration he was an officer of the National Recovery Administration and during 1940-41 served with the National Defense Advisory Commission and its successor agency, the Office of Production Management. In 1941 President Roosevelt sent him to Britain and the Soviet Union to expedite U.S. lend-lease aid. He then served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-46), ambassador to Great Britain (April to October 1946), and secretary of commerce (1947-48). Yep, if I were FDR I would tap a known Nazi frontman for such duty......

To: flatsville who wrote (40682)	9/29/2000 12:22:12 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

About Fritz Thyssen: Fritz Thyssen (b. Nov. 9, 1873, Mülheim, Ger.--d. Feb. 8, 1951, Buenos Aires) was a leading German industrialist and a major financial backer of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Trained as an engineer, Fritz Thyssen entered the family iron, steel, and coal business created by his father, August. After World War I Fritz Thyssen was arrested for refusing to accede to the demands of French authorities occupying the Ruhr. Then, in 1921, the German government charged him with betraying the Ruhr district to the French during the war. It would not be the last time that he would run afoul of his nation's leadership. In 1926, at the age of 53, Fritz Thyssen inherited his father's fortune and industrial empire. His brothers Heinrich and August, Jr., had proved disappointments to their father--Heinrich married a noblewoman and settled down to the comfortable life of a Hungarian baron, and August, Jr., became a spendthrift who fought for his mother's dowry in a legal battle with his father. Fritz, on the other hand, was a shrewd businessman who combined the family holdings into a trust (Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG [United Steelworks Co.]) that controlled more than 75 percent of Germany's ore reserve and employed 200,000 workers. Distressed at what he viewed as the socialistic drift of Germany into economic chaos during the 1920s, Fritz Thyssen became an early backer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and he helped organize the meeting of German industrialists on Jan. 26, 1933, at which Hitler outlined his program. During Hitler's drive for the German Chancellery, Thyssen contributed 3,000,000 marks. Hitler then rewarded his financial sponsor by making Thyssen a member of the German Economic Council and a Prussian state counselor. But Thyssen backed Hitler solely as a nationalist and anti-Communist, viewing Fascism as the only bulwark against Bolshevism. When Hitler led Germany into war and began persecuting Jews and Catholics (Thyssen was a Catholic), the industrialist broke with the Nazis and in 1939 fled to Switzerland. Hitler promptly confiscated the Thyssen fortune (about $88,000,000) and stripped Fritz Thyssen of German citizenship. Thyssen later wrote a scathing denunciation of Nazism entitled "I Paid Hitler." Thyssen moved to France in 1940, but in 1941 the Vichy government picked him up as he was about to leave for South America. He was reportedly sent to Dachau and was found in a detention camp in the Italian Tirol at war's end. Tried and convicted by a German denazification court of being a "minor Nazi," Fritz Thyssen was ordered to turn over 15 percent of his property to a restitution fund for victims of Nazi persecution. A bitter man, he left Germany in 1950 to visit his daughter, Countess Zichy, in Argentina. It was at her Buenos Aires home that he died of a heart attack at the age of 77. britannica.com