I recently photographed the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, NH. That name triggered a memory but I couldn’t immediately place it.
Turns out, this was the site of the 1944 economic conference that has shaped policy the world over up to this very day.
say what you will about john maynard keynes but who else did they have? p.s. hindsight in all things is VERY POPULAR at SDA. ergo if youre so smart and wise about ‘stuff’ that ‘shoulda coulda’ been done differently mebbe SPEAK UP about it at the time???
The who else they had were Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises just to name a couple.
The US delegation was led by Harry Dexter White, USSR spy who was Code named “Richard” “Lawyer” and “Jurist”
The Venona Project was declassified in 1995 and removed all doubt. The FDR admin was full of Communist agents like Alger Hiss and USSR sympathizer Harry Hopkins. FDR couldn’t fart without Hopkins approval.
Read American Betrayal by Diana West, Witness by Whittaker Chambers and so many other books on the subject. The Democrats like to deny all this but facts are troubling.
Me – I was a spy overseas against the USSR and Warsaw Pact for a division of NSA back in the 1960’s so I take a keen interest in such things and also have some knowledge about it.
” hindsight in all things is VERY POPULAR at SDA.”
BULLSHIT in all things is VERY POPULAR at SDA.
There, fixed it fer yah!
Speaking of sighting hinds…
The only thing you’re capable of fixing is getting the squirrel out of the knot hole in the tree you call a girlfriend.
Fun fact. Mount Washington Hotel resort has gone bankrupt at least once, first in 1973-75 economic slowdown.
Must see at hotel- the Gold Room where the international monetary agreements were signed in 1944.
I stayed there the first four days of September, it is a grand old lady, showing some wear, but a magnificent setting. One good thing to be is fit, there is one old elevator opposite the front desk that might hold 6 people uncomfortably. It’s the stairs if you want to do anything other than wait ten minutes or more, and the place has high ceilings, so the stairs are long.
Peter, being an older hotel, were the rooms quite small?
I was in a “king with a mountain view” it was reasonably sized for an older hotel, it had a neat sitting area in the large dormer, so not too bad.
One of my favorite things about stand alone and old hotels like this one is that you can bet they all had some secret location hidden within that was used during the US Prohibition to serve the elite. Washington Resort was no exception. Down below ground level and well within the compound you will find “The Cave.” It includes a false ceiling to hide the booze…and a Squash Court that can be set up in minutes in the event that the Feds showed up. Currently, the same location is an active bar at the resort, but they preserved a part of it, and have photos to show you what it looked like back in the 1920’s.
Another thing about this particular hotel is that they host a bunch of those “paranormal” investigators as a way to increase customers. I don’t subscribe to that (IMO) nonsense. But, it’s still a good sales move.