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.