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Bush – Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951

    Federal Documents

    from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003

    After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen “enemy national” relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.

    Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.

    Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.

    The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.Read More »Bush – Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951

    Wallenberg diplomacy” inquiry: “A failure of Diplomacy”

      Governtment Offices of Sweden, 103 33 Stockholm, 08-405 10 00 A printout from www.sweden.gov.se

      Press release 04 March 2003

      Ministry for Foreign Affairs


      Today the Commission of inquiry into the actions of the Swedish foreign policy leadership in the Raoul Wallenberg case has presented its report “A failure of diplomacy” (UD 2001:03) to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh.

      The Commission’s assignment was to investigate and evaluate the actions of the Swedish foreign policy leadership in the Wallenberg case. Its purpose was to clarify whether the leadership of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs had taken advantage of all the opportunities that had emerged over the course of the years to shed light on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg.Read More »Wallenberg diplomacy” inquiry: “A failure of Diplomacy”