Spirit of Ma'at: "Freedom & National Security" — Vol 2 May 2002

 Race Hygiene: Three Bush Family Alliances
from George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin

 Footnotes:

  1. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, World Population Crisis: The United States Response (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973), "Forword" by George H.W. Bush.


  2. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971), p. 404.


  3. "The Ten Richest People in Houston," in Houston Post magazine, March 11, 1984." $150 million to $250 million from . . . inheritance, plus subsequent investments . . . chief heir to a family fortune in oil stock. . . . As to his financial interests, he is . . . coy. He once described one of his businesses as a company that `invests in and oversees a lot of smaller companies . . . in a lot of foreign countries."'


  4. The announcements were made in testimony before a Special Committee of the U.S. Senate Investigating the National Defense Program. The hearings on Standard Oil were held March 5, 24, 26, 27, 31, and April 1, 2, 3 and 7, 1942. Available on microfiche, law section, Library of Congress. See also New York Times, March 26 and March 27, 1942, and Washington Evening Star, March 26 and March 27, 1942.


  5. Ibid., Exhibit No. 368, printed on pp. 4584-87 of the hearing record. See also Charles Higham, Trading With The Enemy (New York: Delacorte Press, 1983), p. 36.


  6. Confidential memorandum from U.S. embassy, Berlin, op. cit., chapter 2. Sir Henri Deterding was among the most notorious pro-Nazis of the early war period.


  7. See sections on Prescott Bush in Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc. (New York: Distributed by Simon and Schuster, 1979) (published by the Dresser Company).


  8. William Stamps Farish obituary, New York Times, Nov. 30, 1942.


  9. A Decade of Progress in Eugenics: Scientific Papers of the Third International Congress of Eugenics held at American Museum of Natural History New York, Aug. 21-23, 1932. (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, Sept., 1934). The term "eugenics" is taken from the Greek to signify "good birth" or "well-born," as in aristocrat. Its basic assumption is that those who are not "well-born" should not exist.


  10. See among other such letters, George Herbert Walker, 39 Broadway, N.Y., to W. A. Harriman, London, Feb. 21, 1925, in WAH papers.


  11. Averell Harriman to Dr. Charles B. Davenport, President, The International Congress of Eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., N.Y.

    January 21, 1932

    Dear Dr. Davenport:

    I will be only too glad to put you in touch with the Hamburg-American Line . . . they may be able to co-operate in making suggestions which will keep the expenses to a minimum. I have referred your letter to Mr. Emil Lederer [of the Hamburg-Amerika executive board in New York] with the request that he communicate with you.

    Davenport to Mr. W.A. Harriman,

    59 Wall Street, New York, N.Y.

    January 23, 1932

    Dear Mr. Harriman:

    Thank you very much for your kind letter of January 21st and the action you took which has resulted at once in a letter from Mr. Emil Lederer. This letter will serve as a starting point for correspondence, which I hope will enable more of our German colleagues to come to America on the occasion of the congresses of eugenics and genetics, than otherwise.

    Congressional hearings in 1934 established that Hamburg-Amerika routinely provided free transatlantic passage for those carrying out Nazi propaganda chores. See Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities, op. cit., chapter 2.


  12. Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown (New York: Halcyon House, published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, 1935), pp. 318-19.


    13. The battle cry of the New Order was sounded in 1935 with the publication of Man the Unknown, by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute in New York. This Nobel Prize-winner said "enormous sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums. . . . Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? This fact must be squarely faced. Why should society not dispose of the criminals and the insane in a more economical manner? . . . The community must be protected against troublesome and dangerous elements. . . . Perhaps prisons should be abolished. . . . The conditioning of the petty criminal with the whip, or some more scientific procedure, followed by a short stay in hospital, would probably suffice to insure order. [Criminals including those] who have . . . misled the public on important matters, should be humanely and economically disposed of in small euthanasic institutions supplied with proper gases. A similar treatment could be advantageously applied to the insane, guilty of criminal acts."

    Carrel claimed to have transplanted the head of a dog to another dog and kept it alive for quite some time.

  13. Bernhard Schreiber, The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, France: La Hay-Mureaux, ca. 1975), English language edition supplied by H & P. Tadeusz, 369 Edgewere Road, London W2. A copy of this book is now held by Union College Library, Syracuse, N.Y.


  14. Higham, op. cit., p. 35.


  15. Engagement announced Feb. 10, 1939, New York Times, p. 20. See also Directory of Directors for New York City, 1930s and 1940s.


  16. Higham, op. cit., pp. 20, 22 and other references to Schroeder and Lindemann.


  17. Anthony Sutton, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler (Seal Beach: '76 Press, 1976). Sutton is also a good source on the Harrimans.


  18. Washington Evening Star, March 27, 1942, p. 1.


  19. Higham, op. cit. p. 50.


  20. Ibid., p. 48.


  21. Washington Post, April 29, 1990, p. F4. Higham, op. cit., pp. 52-53.


  22. Zapata annual reports, 1950s-60s, Library of Congress microforms.


  23. See Congressional Record for Bush speech in the House of Representatives, Sept. 4, 1969. Bush inserted in the record the testimony given before his Task Force on Aug. 5, 1969.


  24. Sobel, op. cit., pp. 92-111. See also Boyle, op. cit., chapter 1, concerning the Morgan-led Dawes Committee of Germany's foreign creditors.

    Like Harriman, Dillon used the Schroeder and Warburg banks to strike his German bargains. All Dillon Read & Co. affairs in Germany were supervised by J.P. Morgan & Co. partner Thomas Lamont, and were authorized by Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman.


  25. See Poor's Register of Directors and Executives, (New York: Poor's Publishing Company, late 1920s, '30s and '40s). See also Standard Corporation Records (New York: Standard & Poor), 1935 edition pp. 2571-25, and 1938 edition pp. 7436-38, for description and history of the German Credit and Investment Corporation. For Frederic Brandi, See also Sobel, op. cit., pp. 213-14.


  26. Sobel, op. cit., pp. 180, 186. Ivy Lee had been hired to improve the Rockefeller family image, particularly difficult after their 1914 massacre of striking miners and pregnant women in Ludlow, Colorado. Lee got old John D. Rockefeller to pass out dimes to poor people lined up at his porch.


  27. Third International Eugenics Congress papers op. cit., footnote 7, p. 512, "Supporting Members."


  28. Schreiber, op. cit., p. 160. The Third Int. Eugenics Congress papers, p. 526, lists the officers of the International Federation as of publication date in September, 1934. Rüdin is listed as president — a year after he has written the sterilization law for Hitler.


  29. Directory of Directors for New York City, 1942. Interview with Nancy Bowles, librarian of Dillon Read & Co.


  30. Higham, op. cit., p. 129, 212-15, 219-23.


  31. Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made — Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), pp. 122, 305.


  32. Piotrow, op. cit., pp. 36-42.


  33. Ibid., p. viiii. "As chairman of the special Republican Task Force on Population and Earth Resources, I was impressed by the arguments of William H. Draper, Jr. . . . Gen. Draper continues to lead through his tireless work for the U.N. Population Fund."


  34. Sobel, op. cit., pp. 298, 354.


  35. Interview July 16, 1991, with Joanne Grossi, an official with the USAID's Population Office.


  36. Dr. Nafis Sadik, "The State of World Population," 1991, New York, United Nations Population Fund.


  37. See User's Guide to the Office of Population, 1991, Office of Population, Bureau for Science and Technology, United States Agency for International Development. Available from S&T/POP, Room 811 SA-18, USAID, Washington D.C. 20523-1819.


  38. "History of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization [formerly Sterilization League of America], 1935-64," thesis submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of the University of Minnesota by William Ray Van Essendelft, March, 1978, available on microfilm, Library of Congress. This is the official history, written with full cooperation of the Sterilization League.


  39. Interview with Dr. C. Nash Herndon, June 20, 1990.
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