09-10-2008, 03:43 PM
David Guyatt's scholarship into the history and Cold War (and beyond) uses of WWII loot is second to none.
To oversimplify: Think of those riches as the secret government's secret treasury.
And if you'll permit me to indulge in a writer's penchant for semiotic excess:
Neither of the the two most important and sinister umbrellas in history belonged to Chamberlain. Rather, they are the bumbershoots stamped on gold bars and opened in Dealey Plaza.
In terms of the latter, I see it as the artists' collective signature on their masterpiece.
To oversimplify: Think of those riches as the secret government's secret treasury.
And if you'll permit me to indulge in a writer's penchant for semiotic excess:
Neither of the the two most important and sinister umbrellas in history belonged to Chamberlain. Rather, they are the bumbershoots stamped on gold bars and opened in Dealey Plaza.
In terms of the latter, I see it as the artists' collective signature on their masterpiece.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene