George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

58 countries in Asia, Africa and Ibero-America. The group modestly claims it has directly sterilized
only '' two million people, with 87 percent of the bill paid by U.S. taxpayers. Meanwhile, Dr. Clarence Gamble, Boyden Gray's favorite soap manufacturer, formed his own
Pathfinder Fund '' as a split-off from the Sterilization League. Gamble's Pathfinder Fund, with
additional millions from USAID, concentrates on penetration of local social groups in the non-
white countries, to break down psychological resistance to the surgical sterilization teams.
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NOTES:

1. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, World Population Crisis: The United States Response (New York:Praeger Publishers, 1973), `` Forward '' by George H.W. Bush, pp. vii-viii.

2.Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971), p. 404.

3.The Ten Richest People in Houston, '' in Houston Post Magazine, March 11, 1984. $150million to $250 million from ... inheritance, plus subsequent investments ... chief heir to a family (^)
fortune in oil stock.... As to his financial interests, he is ... coy. He once described one of his
businesses as a company that `invests in and oversees a lot of smaller companies ... in a lot of
foreign countries.'''

4. The announcements were made in testimony before a Special Committee of the U.S. Senate
   Investigating the National Defense Program. The hearings on Standard Oil were held March 5, 24,
   26, 27, 31, and April 1, 2, 3 and 7, 1942. Available on microfiche, law section, Library of Congress.
   See also New York Times, March 26 and March 27, 1942, and Washington Evening Star, March 26
   and March 27, 1942.


5. Ibid., Exhibit No. 368, printed on pp. 4584-87 of the hearing record. See also Charles Higham,
   Trading With The Enemy (New York: Delacorte Press, 1983), p. 36.


6. Confiwas among the most notorious pro-Nazis of the early war period.dential memorandum from U.S. embassy, Berlin, op. cit., chapter 2. Sir Henri Deterding


7. See sections on Prescott Bush in Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc.
   (New York: Distributed by Simon and Schuster, 1979) (published by the Dresser Company).


8. William Stamps Farish obituary, New York Times, Nov. 30, 1942.


9. A Decade of Progress in Eugenics: Scientific Papers of the Third International Congress of
   Eugenics held at American Museum of Natural History New York, Aug. 21-23, 1932. (Baltimore:
   Williams & Wilkins Company, Sept., 1934).
   The term eugenics '' is taken from the Greek to signify good birth '' or well-born, '' as in aristocrat. Its basic assumption is that those who are not well-born '' should not exist.


10. See among other such letters, George Herbert Walker, 39 BroaLondon, Feb. 21, 1925, in WAH papers. dway, N.Y., to W. A. Harriman,


11. Averell Harriman to Dr. Charles B. Davenport, President, The International Congress of
    Eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., N.Y.
    January 21, 1932