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Crumbs of Loot. Cried Mohandas K. Gandhi last week when he heard of the trip: "Big merchants, capitalists, industrialists and others speak and write against the [British] Government, but in action do its will and even profit through it. ... [Independence] will come only when interests, big or small, are prepared to forgo the crumbs that fall to them from partnership with the British in the loot which British rule takes from India...
Nothing Left to Loot. Finally, there was nothing left to pillage. Hundreds of merchants were ruined. It would take days to clear the debris-strewn streets...
...week the U.S. Seventh Army's Lieut. James J. Rorimer (curator-on-leave of Medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum) found himself sitting on one of the most mountainous heaps of stolen masterpieces known to history. Part of the intended contents of the two projected Nazi museums, the loot was stored in Neuschwanstein Castle, an elaborate retreat built by mad King Ludwig in the wooded hills of southern Bavaria...
...Seventy-two cases of art stolen from France and from Russia-in the former Carthusian Monastery at Buxheim. ¶ Some 300 cases of miscellaneous loot-in another old stronghold of Ludwig II of Bavaria on the island of Herren...
...Another art cache (some $10 million worth), was found in a village near Vicenza, Italy: more German loot lifted from Italian museums. Packed in 23 cases, it included Donatello sculpture, rare coins...