the Chester Concession-- tiny link

[Michael Bailey]

grladams wrote:

>  I believe Pynchon wanted me to stumble on some history.

nice way of putting it (;

> I'm studying
>  Crouchmas and the Turkish railway guarantees because of their scripophilic
>  importance.

speaking of which, re Dave's question, that's definitely a recurring
theme (as Robin graciously points out)

> I have decided to put the same articles in front of you that I
>  have read. The main long one under the chester link has a bit about a Sir
>  Ernest Cassel, a financier with German sympathies. I think Crouchmas has
>  those leanings too. There's some info in there on the link between railways
>  and mining, which I had never considered,

every mine has a little railroad, doesn't it?
And they must connect up to something cttoi (come to think of it)

> and after you poke around on the
>  internet about what would spin out over the course of the time in ATD, it
>  seems as though it's an intentional reference to the present time and how
>  Americans (and British?) seem to like --and not learn from mistakes of--
>  meddling and exacerbating conflicts in the middle east for business and
>  financial gain.

so much cheaper to proclaim a whole people infidels
(even if the faith is humanistic western democracy)
and appropriate their resources and labor -
yet, I think, studies have shown, it's actually a losing
proposition - those armies have to be paid, and meanwhile
they aren't producing anything... - some subsets
gain monetarily (though at terrible cost karmically)

> Here is a link to my utilitarian and spartan website. The
>  articles are from 1910, 1906, an abstract from JSTOR, & a Biography of
>  Colby Mitchell Chester.
>
>  http://home.teleport.com/~grladams/stufficannotsendtoplistsoimpostingthemher
>  e/id10.html
>

cool article, I liked this: "...while the British government,
of course, had no control over financial enterprises..."

jstor and those other resources might be available
through our local library, but I can't seem to locate proof
on their website...will ask the librarian...
thanks for the articles.