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July 23, 2007

US millionaire’s plan for fascist coup against Roosevelt in 1934 [Politics, Economic, social, trade union, etc., Racism and anti-racism, Visual arts] — Administrator @ 7:06 pm


This video from the USA by Jay-Z and Russell Simmons is a PSA about Anti-Semitism.

From History News Network in the USA:

The Art Collector Who Wanted to Stage a Fascist Coup Against FDR

By Nicholas Fox Weber

Nicholas Fox Weber is the author of The Clarks of Cooperstown, on which the foillowing article is based.

It sounds like a fabrication whenever I mention that, in researching the great art collector Robert Sterling Clark—proud owner of thirty-nine Renoirs and of the only significant altar piece by Piero Della Francesca in America, and founder of a fine and well-known public art museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts—I discovered that, in 1934, he apparently devoted considerable energy to an attempt to have President Franklin Delano Roosevelt overthrown and replaced by a Fascist dictator. The evidence, however, is clear; the only real mystery is why more attention has never been given to the attempted putsch in the White House.

Sterling—as everyone called him—had approximately thirty million dollars at the time, in addition to a valuable art collection, sumptuous houses in America and France, and vast holdings of silver, rare books, vintage Burgundies, and other collectables.

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