In November 1934, federal investigators uncovered an amazing plot
involving some two dozen senior businessmen, a good many of them Wall
Street financiers, to topple the government of the United States and
install a fascist dictator****p.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000651
1934: The Plot Against America
By Scott Horton
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A key element of the plot involved a retired prominent general who was
to have raised a private army of 500,000 men from unemployed veterans
and who blew the whistle when he learned more of what the plot
entailed.
The plot was heavily funded and well developed and had strong links
with fascist forces abroad.
A story in the New York Times and several other newspapers re****ted on
it, and a special Congressional committee was created to conduct an
investigation.
The records of this committee were scrubbed and sealed away in the
National Archives, where they have only recently been made available.
The Congressional committee kept the names of many of the participants
under wraps and no criminal action was ever brought against them.
But a few names have leaked out.
And one is Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the incumbent president.
Prescott Bush was of course deep into the business of the
Hamburg-America Lines, and had tight relations throughout this period
with the new Government that had come to power in Germany a year
earlier under Chancellor Aldoph Hitler.
It appears that Bush was to have formed a key liaison for the group
with the new German government.
Prescott Bush, of course, went on to service as a U.S. Senator from
Connecticut, and his son, George H.W. Bush emerged from World War II
as a hero.
The Plot Against America ****trayed in this episode of the BBC series
“Document” gives fascinating insight into a dark and little known
piece of American history in which the nation stood on the brink of
betrayal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
The role of the most powerful political dynastic family in the
nation’s history in this whole affair is shocking.
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Well, waddya know
Harry
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