Christopher Simpson – the Splendid Blond Beast
The Splendid Blond Beast Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON � GROVE PRESS NEW YORK Copyright © 1993 by Christopher Simpson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. Published by Grove Press A division of Grove Press, Inc. 841 Broadway New Yo rk, New Yo rk 10003-4793 Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Simpson, Christopher. The splendid blond beast : money, law, and genocide in the twentieth century I Christopher Simpson. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8021-1362-1 1. United States-Foreign relations-20th century. 2. Armenian massacres, 1915-1 923. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 4. Genocide-History-20th century. I. Title. E744.S5636 1993 327.73-dc20 92-16783 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper Designed by Jules Perlmutter/Off-Broadway Graphics First Edition 1993 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Susan Acknowledgments AM GRATEFUL for assistance in United States archives to Brews I ter Chamberlain and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Dennis Bilger of the Harry S Tr uman Library, to the research staffs at the U.S. National Archives, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Library of Congress, and the McKeldon Library at the University of Maryland. I am especially grateful to Marilla Guptil of the United Nations Archives, who helped with research in the United Nations War Crimes Commission archives, and to Senator Claiborne Pell and Benjamin Ferencz, who permitted access to important collec tions of private papers.
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