On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:05:45PM -0400, Chip Berlet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trivia:
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> My great uncle Frederick Todd was a U.S. commercial attache to Cuba. He refused to support the idea of turning the island into a single crop sugar export plantation since he realized it would destroy the economy. He even wrote about this in 1934:
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> "Hay que Dar a Cuba Instituciones Propias y Vida Económica Independiente" por Frederick Todd
> "It is necessary To give to Cuba Own Institutions and Independent Economic Life" by Frederick Todd
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> Bohemia, May 20, 1934
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> Guggenheim was sent by the U.S. State Department to deliver the ultimatum: agree to making Cuba a U.S. plantation or resign. Being a Victorian, he chose the suicide option. His widow told us never to go to the Guggenheim art museum because it was built on blood.
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> Chip Berlet
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