managing partner of his firm, Prescott Bush. Only 22-1/2 months before, the U.S. government had
seized and shut down the Union Banking Corp., wGermany by Bush and the Harrimans (see Chapter 2). Buthich had been operated on behalf of Nazi that was behind them now and they were (^)
safe. There would be no publicity on the Harriman-Bush sponsorship of Hitlerism.
Prescott's son George, the future U.S. President, was also safe. Three days before this note to
Moscow was written, George Bush had parachuted from a Navy bomber airplane over the PacificOcean, killing his two crew members when the unpiloted plane crashed.
Five months later, in February 1945, Prescott's boss, Averell Harriman, escorted President Franklin
Roosevelt to the fateful summit meeting with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at Yalta. In April
Roosevelt died. The agreement reached at Yalta, calling for freended, was never enforced. e elections in Poland once the war
Over the next eight years (1945 through 1952), Prescott Bush was Harriman's anchor in the New
York financial world. The increasingly powerful Mr. Harriman and his allies gave Eastern Europe
over to Soviet dictatorship. A Cold War was then undertaken, to counterbalance '' the Soviets. This British-inspired strategy paid several nightmarish dividends. Eastern Europe was to remain enslaved. Germany was permanently '' divided. Anglo-American power was jointly exercised
over the non-Soviet Free World. '' The confidential functions of the British and American governments were merged. The Harriman clique took posapparatus, and in doing so, they opened the gate and let the Bush family in.session of the U.S. national security Following his services to Germany's Nazi Party, Averell Harriman spent several years mediating between the British, American and Soviet governments in the war to stop the Nazis. He was ambassador to Moscow from 1943 to 1946. President Harry Truman, whom Harriman and his friends held in amused contempt, appointed Harriman U.S. ambassador to Britain in 1946. Harriman was at lunch with former British Prime Minister Winston Churcwhen Truman telephoned. Harriman asked Churchill if he should accept Truman's offer to comehill one day in 1946, (^) back to the U.S. as Secretary of Commerce. According to Harriman's account, Churchill told him:
Absolutely. The center of power is in Washington. ''@s1
Jupiter Island
The reorganization of the American government after World War II--the creation of the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency along British lines, for example--had devastating consequences. We
are concerned here with only certain aspects of that overall transformation, those matters of policy
and family which gave shape to the life and mind of George Bush, and gave him access to power.
It was in these postwar years that George Bush attended Yale University, and was inducted into the
Skull and Bones society. The Bush family's home at that time was in Greenwich, Connecticut. But
it was just then that George's parents, Prescott and Dorothy Walker Bush, were wintering in a
peculiar spot in Florida, a place that is excluded from mention in literature originating from Bush
circles.
Certain national news accounts early in 1991 featured the observations on President Bush's
childhood by his elderly mother Dorothy. She was said to be a resident of Hobe Sound, Florida.
More precisely, the President's mother lived in a hyper-security arrangement created a half-century
earlier by Averell Harriman, adjacent to Hobe Sound. Its correct name is Jupiter Island.