re: #118 HappyWarrior

I’ve gotta go do some website stuff, but I just remembered a link I saved the other day for you & the other history buffs. Looks very interesting, but I haven’t read my WWI book yet and don’t know all the players, so it’s sorta meaningless to me right now:

A scandal of international proportions comes out of the vaults
The real-life WWI political intricacies of Sir Basil Zaharoff — a man once known as ‘the wickedest man in Europe’ — are the stuff of Hollywood legend

LONDON — The British National Archives file marked as CAB301/116 looks innocuous enough at first glance. But within its ordinary cardboard cover lies a torrid story, the tale of a man once known as “the Merchant of Death,” who was called “the wickedest man in Europe.”

The file, found among the Cabinet papers of 1952 and released this month, relates to a tin box of documents which are so toxic that neither the Cabinet Office nor the Foreign Office wanted to keep them - though they knew they could not risk them becoming public. [….]

http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-scandal-of-international-proportions-comes-out-of-the-vaults/