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freshwest

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10. Interesting what happened years before and after that, from the link:
Mon Dec 3, 2012, 04:39 AM
Dec 2012
Outraged by the loss of life during the First World War, he lost faith in England, blaming the war on usury and international capitalism. He moved to Italy in 1924, where throughout the 1930s and 1940s, to his friends' dismay, he embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, expressed support for Adolf Hitler and wrote for publications owned by Oswald Mosley. The Italian government paid him during the Second World War to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States, as a result of which he was arrested for treason by American forces in Italy in 1945. He spent months in detention in a U.S. military camp in Pisa, including 25 days in a six-by-six-foot outdoor steel cage that he said triggered a mental breakdown, "when the raft broke and the waters went over me." Deemed unfit to stand trial, he was incarcerated in St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years.[3]

Appeared to be a strong admirer of Hitler, Mussolini, blamed the Jews for everything and was friends with one of the leaders of the KKK. So many of these same threads we see repeated in this era in America and abroad right now with little changes. He had an extradinary life and many friends who helped him throughout his life. At least he got to live out his latter years in Italy.


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