| Subject: Re: The Bushes and the Nazis |
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Edward Markowski
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Date Posted: 16:12:42 06/10/03 Tue
In reply to:
Tee Jay
's message, "The Bushes and the Nazis" on 22:29:53 03/27/02 Wed
Hi Edek!
Znalazlam interesujacy artykul o dziadku Busha i Nazistach. Bohdan Fedorak jest mezem kuzynki Myrona on jest wlasnie Konsulem do Ukrainy on mowil nam o tym artykule bo on ma tylko 65 lat a pisza ze byl pogromca Zydow w czasie wojny byl zaszokowany jak to przeczytal.
Odpisz.
Danka.
>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. (1)
>
>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. (2)
>
>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. (3)
>
>Bush and Quayle's advisers in 1988 included several
>European fascist
>activists, including Nazi collaborator Laszlo Pasztor,
>who had served
>as junior envoy in Berlin for the Arrow Cross regime
>in his native
>Hungary; Florian Goldau, who had been recruiter for
>the Romanian Iron
>Guard; Bohdan Fedorak, who had headed a Ukranian
>pro-Nazi group
>involved in wartime pogroms; and Croatian-born
>agitator Jerome
>Brentar, a fixture on the Holocaust denial circuit. (4)
>
>Discussing what he would say to Israeli Jews upon
>arriving in the
>middle east in 1993, George W. joked: "[You're all]
>going to hell."
>(5)
>
>Tapes of the Bush Family's long-time spiritual
>adviser, Billy Graham,
>have revealed that Graham used to have vehemently
>anti-Semitic
>conversations with Nixon. For example, Graham blamed
>"satanic Jews"
>for the nation's problems. After agreeing with Nixon
>that left-wing
>Jews dominate the news-media, Graham stated that
>"They're the ones
>putting out the pornographic stuff," and the Jewish
>"stranglehold has
>got to be broken or the country's going down the
>drain." He also
>admitted that "a lot of the Jews are great friends of
>mine.... But
>they don't know how I really feel about what they are
>doing about
>this country." (6)
>
>Whether one is for or against it, the death penalty is
>a serious
>issue. When Karla Faye Tucker was asked, just before
>her execution,
>"What would you say to Governor Bush?" George W.
>showed the
>sensitivity of a Nazi when he mocked her: "Please...
>don't kill me!"
>(7)
>
>References:
>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.
>
>4. Washington Jewish Week, September 8, 1988.
>
>5. Austin-American Statesman, December 1, 1998.
>
>6. David Firestone, "Billy Graham Responds to
>Lingering Anger Over
>1972 Remarks on Jews." New York Times, Sunday, March
>17, 2002.
>
>7. Talk, Sept 1999, Quoted in The Bush Dyslexicon:
>Observations on a
>national disorder, by MC Miller
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