On 7 May 2006 07:53:09 -0700, "kurgan" wrote:

In fact, the allegations are dealt with in less than two pages. The
book refers to the Herald-Tribune story by saying that "a person of
less established ethics would have panicked ... Bush and his partners
at Brown Brothers Harriman informed the government regulators that the
account, opened in the late 1930s, was 'an unpaid courtesy for a
client' ... Prescott Bush acted quickly and openly on behalf of the
firm, served well by a reputation that had never been compromised. He
made available all records and all documents. Viewed six decades later
in the era of serial corporate scandals and shattered careers, he
received what can be viewed as the ultimate clean bill."

The Prescott Bush story has been condemned by both conservatives and
some liberals as having nothing to do with the current president. It
has also been suggested that Prescott Bush had little to do with
Averill Harriman and that the two men opposed each other politically.

However, documents from the Harriman papers include a flattering
wartime profile of Harriman in the New York Journal American and next
to it in the files is a letter to the financial editor of that paper
from Prescott Bush congratulating the paper for running the profile. He
added that Harriman's "performance and his whole attitude has been a
source of inspiration and pride to his partners and his friends".

The Anti-Defamation League in the US is supportive of Prescott Bush and
the Bush family. In a statement last year they said that "rumours about
the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush ... have circulated
widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are
untenable and politically motivated ... Prescott Bush was neither a
Nazi nor a Nazi sympathiser."


When the ADL gives you a clean bill of health..its pretty solid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Thyssen

"In 1930 Thyssen, together with other industrialists, bought the
"Braunes Haus" in Munich and financed its remodelation to be NSDAP
headquarter. They also started a campaign to encourage other
industrialists to work with the NSDAP. In 1930, first May, he
officially becomes a member of the NSDAP.

He was also an ideological supporter, since he backed repression
against trade unions and left-wing parties. However, he was in strong
disagreement with the religious persecutions of Jews. One of his
strongest motivation to join the NSDAP was likely his dislike for the
Treaty of Versailles.

Following the Kristallnacht, Thyssen resigned from all his political
offices and fled to Switzerland and then to France. Hitler confiscated
all his property and demanded his capture. The Vichy government of
occupied France promptly obeyed and Thyssen was sent to the
concentration camp Sachsenhausen."
"I think this is because of your belief in biological Marxism.
As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural
patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief
in biological Marxism." Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist