pynchon-l-digest V1 #128

[Mr Craig Clark]

Bob Norton <rnorton at flash.net> writes:
 
> >This was much more common than we postwar naifs might suppose.  Many U.S. 
> >corporations continued their business operations in Nazi Germany 
> >throughout the war; I forget which U.S. aircraft company it was that 
> >maintained its relationship with Messerschmitt all through the period 
> >when pilots in its airplanes were being shot down by pilots in 
> >Messerschmitts.  And no one ever even whispered the word treason.
> >
> That would be good old General Electric. They received an enormous
> settlement from the U.S. about 10 years ago for daring to bomb their
> Messerschmitt plant. I wonder if it was in litigation for the full 40 years?

This smacks of Milo Minderbinder here, foax.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"