Guardian:

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

check the dateline
Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004

and this line from the article
threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election.
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When you're running against your frat brother, these things just don't come up in the campaign...

there might, though, have been a bit of a ruckus at the Utgarthalokis' inaugural party, some malcontent in a zoot suit offering smegma stew...
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but seriously, most of your industrialists were pro-Hitler.  
(you say, not "your" industrialists?  well, whose are they then?)




> -----Original Message-----
> From: pynchonoid [mailto:pynchonoid at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 01:54 AM
> To: ruudsaurins at aol.com, 'Pynchon-L'
> Subject: Re: Guardian:  "How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power"
> 
> We certainly haven't seen this story running in any
> major US daily paper, not that I know of.  The Brits
> on the list will know better, but my impression is
> that the Guardian is a fairly respectable publication.
> 
> I'd like to see that law suit proceed against Bush. 
> Then, put him on trial for war crimes.
> 
> --- ruudsaurins at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Hoy! Hoy!
> >      That Prescott Bush and his cronies helped
> > finance the rise of the militaristic Third Reich has
> > not, to my knowledge, been denied.  A more
> > appropriate verb would be "obscured" by the
> > "winners" who write the history books.  The issue
> > that warrants concern is _why_ "they" would elect to
> > invest their hard-stolen money in this fashion. 
> > Simple profit is probably the most morally
> > defensible reason.  The same issue is at the core of
> > the foundation of the U.S. Federal Reserve system in
> > 1913; just in time to lend money to a bankrupt
> > Europe to pay for.....what?!?  
> >      Ezra Pound's expatriated concern over the U.S.
> > government's involvement in such shenanigans earned
> > him a government supported "diagnosis"  of
> > psychiatric illness and his own internment.   The
> > phrase "evil f**kers" comes to mind....but then, it
> > is the U.S. of Bush and Co. who have run up record
> > deficits denominated in currency that we mint and
> > print.  Nice work if you can get it!  
> >  
> >                                                     
> >                         truly,
> >                                                     
> >                         ruud 
> >                                                     
> >              
> >  
> >  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pynchonoid at yahoo.com
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Sent: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:47 PM
> > Subject: Guardian: "How Bush's grandfather helped
> > Hitler's rise to power"
> > 
> > 
> >     
> > How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
> > 
> > Rumours of a link between the US first family and
> > the
> > Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now
> > the
> > Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that
> > culminated in action under the Trading with the
> > Enemy
> > Act are still being felt by today's president
> > 
> > Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
> > Saturday September 25, 2004
> > The Guardian
> > 
> > George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator
> > Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of
> > companies that profited from their involvement with
> > the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
> > 
> > The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly
> > discovered files in the US National Archives that a
> > firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was
> > involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
> > 
> > His business dealings, which continued until his
> > company's assets were seized in 1942 under the
> > Trading
> > with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later
> > to a civil action for damages being brought in
> > Germany
> > against the Bush family by two former slave
> > labourers
> > at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election
> > controversy.
> > 
> > ...continues:
> >
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
> >  
> > 
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