George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

Now, arms production in wartime is by necessity carried on with great security
precautions. The public need not know details of the private lives of the government or
industry executives involved, and a broad interrelationship between government and
private-sector personnel is normal and useful.
But during the period preceding World War I, and in the war years 1914-1917 when the
U.S. was still neutral, interlocking Wall Street financiers subservient to British strategy
lobbied heavily, and twisted U.S. government and domestic police functions. Led by the
J.P. Morgan concern, Britain's overall purchasing agent in America, these financiers
wanted a world war and they wanted the United States in it as Britain's ally. The U.S. and
British arms companies, owned by these international financiers, poured out weapons
abroad in deals not subject to the scrutiny of any electorate back home. The same
gentlemen, as we shall see, later supplied weapons and money to Hitler's Nazis.
That this problem persists today, is in some respect due to the "control" over the
documentation and the history of the arms traffickers.
World War I was a disaster for civilized humanity. It had terrible, unprecedented
casualties, and shattering effects on the moral philosophy of Europeans and Americans.
But for a brief period, the war treated Prescott Bush rather well.
In June, 1918, just as his father took over responsibility for relations of the government
with the private arms producers, Prescott went to Europe with the U.S. Army. His unit
did not come near any fire until September. But on August 8, 1918, the following item
appeared on the front page of Bush's home-town newspaper:
High Military Honors Conferred on Capt. Bush
For Notable Gallantry, When Leading Allied Commanders Were Endangered, Local Man
is Awarded French, English and U.S. Crosses.
International Honors, perhaps unprecedented in the life of an American soldier, have
been conferred upon Captain Prescott Sheldon Bush, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Bush of
Columbus.
Upon young Bush ... were conferred: Cross of the Legion of Honor, ... Victoria Cross, ...
Distinguished Service Cross....
Conferring of the three decorations upon one man at one time implies recognition of a
deed of rare valor and probably of great military importance as well.
From word which has reached Columbus during the last few days, it appears as if the
achievement of Captain Bush well measures up to these requirements.