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Re: Tough issue...

Did you see the Nova program about De Beers? At the start of WWII, US estimators figured that Nazi Germany had enough industrial diamonds to last 6 months to a year. After that, precision grinding would come to a halt, meaning that bearing production would cease. The Nazi's never ran out of diamonds, even though diamonds are not found in Europe or the Fascist field of influence. They pointed out that one key factor of the German observation of Swiss neutrality was that De Beers, an English Company, supplied huge amounts of diamonds to Switzerland and, in fact, refused, even through the darkest hours of the blitz, to stockpile industrial diamonds in the US. Those diamonds funneled their way to the German war machine.
Diamonds are still considered a strategic material in the US,BTW.
Only a year or two ago, the Swiss banking system went through a controversy about accepting Jewish gold and valuables from the Nazi Concentration camps, and pocketing large sums from accounts of the victims of the holocaust. That was the tip of the iceburg.
I do not buy any diamonds for jewelry for any reason. The greed shown by De Beers and the direct damage and pain they caused far outweighs whatever personal gain Swartzkopf may have gained.

BTW, Charles Lindberg also supported the Nazi's, but changed his mind after Pearl Harbor.

Stu

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