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...rich tin mines and oil pools of The Netherlands East Indies had been prize loot for the Japanese. Dropping all such stolen property last month, the Japs took time to throw a sharp tack in the path of the former owners. On Java they granted independence to a "Republic of Indonesia." Its head: Dutch-educated Soekarno, 40, a longtime, long-winded nationalist orator...
...Republican candidate, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, had been a Democrat until the day before his nomination. Now, with the added blessings of the Liberal and Fusion Parties, grey-haired Judge Goldstein was belaboring Democrats right & left. Nightly he cried that "Tammany's tin-box boys" were fixing to loot the city. Mild-mannered Judge Goldstein had once been secretary to arch-Democrat Al Smith. He now had the backing of another Governor: Tom Dewey...
Hermann Göring had small taste for the French impressionists, even as loot. But he never let his taste stop him from grabbing anything that had swap value. Last week in Florence, nine impressionist masterpieces worth close to $1,000,000 turned up; Göring had got them from Jewish collectors in France, traded them in Florence for Italian Renaissance masters...
...taken from the British, French and U.S. zones would also go to Russia - 10% outright, 15% in return for payments (over five years) in shipments of food, coal, potash, etc. Britain, the U.S., France and such other claimants as Holland, Belgium and Norway would share the remaining 75% of loot from southern and western Germany...
There had been, for example, the terrible hardships he and his 13 companions had gone through to spy out the Inca empire (and the side deal with Charles V to cut Pizarro's 13 companions out of most of the loot). Now, at 70, Don Francisco was weary of bloodshed and treachery. In his garden the first fig tree of New Castile had just borne fruit. When the enemies he had left alive conspired against him, he invited them to his palace for half a dozen figs and some friendly advice. The rebels answered the invitation by breaking into...