That "election"/ gotta be kidding!

[calbert at tiac.net]

jbor:


 just for the sake of poetic justice I'd like to
> think that the margin that George W. eventually wins by is *precisely*
> the number of votes Gore has lost due to the transparent
> hate-mongering and mud-slinging against Bush carried on by so-called
> "professional" commentators -- particularly "on-line" -- as they
> impersonate "rigour and seriousness". What a farce.

Mr Millard:

> whether Prescott Bush and George Herbert
> > Walker were in fact Nazi sympathizers and collaborators, leaving a
> > legacy that calls their descendants' actions into serious question.
> >


The facts:

"In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America 
was preparing its
first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was 
managing partner of
Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son George, the future 
U.S. President, had
just begun training to become a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the 
U.S. government
ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York 
City which
were being conducted by Prescott Bush. 

Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the 
Union Banking
Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property 
Custodian seized
Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares, all of which were owned by 
Prescott Bush, E.
Roland `` Bunny '' Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other 
associates of
Bush. at s1 

The order seizing the bank `` vests '' (seizes) `` all of the capital 
stock of Union
Banking Corporation, a New York corporation, '' and names the 
holders of its shares
as: 

    `` E. Roland Harriman--3991 shares ''
    [chairman and director of Union Banking Corp. (UBC); this is `` 
Bunny '' Harriman, described by Prescott
    Bush as a place holder who didn't get much into banking affairs; 
Prescott managed his personal
    investments] 

    `` Cornelis Lievense--4 shares ''
    [president and director of UBC; New York resident banking 
functionary for the Nazis] 

    `` Harold D. Pennington--1 share ''
    [treasurer and director of UBC; an office manager employed by 
Bush at Brown Brothers Harriman] 

    `` Ray Morris--1 share ''

    [director of UBC; partner of Bush and the Harrimans]

    `` Prescott S. Bush--1 share ''
    [director of UBC, which was co-founded and sponsored by his 
father-in-law George Walker; senior
    managing partner for E. Roland Harriman and Averell Harriman] 

    `` H.J. Kouwenhoven--1 share ''
    [director of UBC; organized UBC as the emissary of Fritz 
Thyssen in negotiations with George Walker
    and Averell Harriman; managing director of UBC's Netherlands 
affiliate under Nazi occupation; industrial
    executive in Nazi Germany; director and chief foreign financial 
executive of the German Steel Trust] 

    `` Johann G. Groeninger--1 share ''
    [director of UBC and of its Netherlands affiliate; industrial 
executive in Nazi Germany] 

    `` all of which shares are held for the benefit of ... members of 
the Thyssen
    family, [and] is property of nationals ... of a designated enemy 
country.... '' 

By Oct. 26, 1942, U.S. troops were under way for North Africa. On 
Oct. 28, the
government issued orders seizing two Nazi front organizations run 
by the
Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation 
and the Seamless
Steel Equipment Corporation. at s2 

U.S. forces landed under fire near Algiers on Nov. 8, 1942; heavy 
combat raged
throughout November. Nazi interests in the Silesian-American 
Corporation, long
managed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law George Herbert 
Walker, were seized
under the Trading with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942. In this 
action, the
government announced that it was seizing only the Nazi interests, 
leaving the Nazis'
U.S. partners to carry on the business. at s3 "

The record:

"1. Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order No. 248. The 
order was signed by Leo T. Crowley, Alien
Property Custodian, executed October 20, 1942; F.R. Doc. 42-
11568; Filed, November 6, 1942, 11:31 A.M.;
7 Fed. Reg. 9097 (Nov. 7, 1942). See also the New York City 
Directory of Directors (available at the Library
of Congress). The volumes for the 1930s and 1940s list Prescott 
Bush as a director of Union Banking
Corporation for the years 1934 through 1943. 

2. Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 259: Seamless Steel 
Equipment Corporation; Vesting Order
No. 261: Holland-American Trading Corp. 

3. Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 370: Silesian-
American Corp. 



Jbor-

If you think Snort was unfailry maligned I would recommend you 
spend a few minutes with this:

http://www.mediafilter.org/MFF/BushFamilyPreys.html

if you find yourself wondering about the sources of these stories, I'd 
be pleased to direct you to the Wall Street Journal issues in which 
these matters were discussed.....

The media and Gore have given Snort and his venal family a free 
ride.........

sorry to be so long winded, but some crap just can't be allowed to 
pass...


love,
cfa