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French President Poincare Counters Conspiracy Theory by Anti-Semitic Editor Urbain Gohier (Who Later Fabricated the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”)
ANTI-SEMITISM,
RAYMOND POINCARE, Autograph Letter Signed, to Unknown, May 22, 1916. 3 pp., 5⅛ x 8 in.
The President of the Third French Republic tells an unknown friend about a disturbing letter that he just received from right wing journalist and newspaper editor Urbain Gohier, in which Gohier had accused him, the sitting president, of colluding with Jewish and foreign elements.
Item #24843, $1,250
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Harding’s Return to Normalcy – and Isolationism – after World War I
WARREN G. HARDING,
Typed Letter Signed as President, to Senator Joseph Medill McCormick, Washington, D. C., August 29, 1921. With autograph emendations in two different secretarial hands. 8 pp.
Key political circular from the first-year Republican President written to influence off-year elections in New Mexico and other places. Harding justifies, and praises, the rapid postwar dismantling of America’s military by Congress, while backhandedly criticizing the inattention of his predecessor – Woodrow Wilson – to the peacetime transition. “Vast expenditure without proper consideration for results, is the inevitable fruit of war.”
Item #21124, $2,600
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FBI Director Warns Polaroid to Guard against Espionage and Sabotage before American Entry into World War II
J. EDGAR HOOVER,
Typed Letter Signed, to Officers of Polaroid Company, on FBI letterhead, marked “Personal and Confidential,” Washington, October 22, 1940. 1 p., 7¼ x 9¼ in. #23917.01
Typed Letter Signed, to Edwin H. Land, on FBI letterhead, Washington, January 10, 1941. 8 pp., 7¼ x 9¼ in. #23917.02
Book. “Secret” booklet published by the FBI Suggestions for Protection of Industrial Facilities, April, 1941. 50 pp. #23917.03
In these two letters, J. Edgar Hoover offers general and specific advice to the Polaroid Company of Massachusetts to protect it against “foreign espionage and sabotage” as America tries to stay out of the world war ravaging Europe and Asia.
Item #23917, $1,500
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Striking World War II Poster:
“UNITED we are strong / UNITED we will win”
[WORLD WAR II]. HENRY KOERNER,
Poster. “UNITED we are strong / UNITED we will win.” No. 64. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office for Office of War Information, 1943. 1 p., 20 x 28 in.
This bold and colorful poster pictures Allied unity through more than a dozen cannon exploding skyward, each wrapped with the flag of an allied nation: Brazil, Belgium, Norway, the United Kingdom, Mexico, the United States, China, the Soviet Union, Australia, and Czechoslovakia.
Item #24015, $550
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Haim Laskov Writes to His Future Wife during WWII
HAIM LASKOV,
Autograph Letter Signed, to Shulamith Chen. Italy, Nov. 19, 1943. 2 pp. Heading in English, body in Hebrew.
“Night after night I watch (the stars) and read your regards.”
Item #20756, $400
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William K. And Harold Vanderbilt Signed
World War I Veterans Bonus New York State Bond
[WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT],
Partially Printed Document Signed. $50,000 World War Bonus Bond, issued to William K. Vanderbilt, Harold S. Vanderbilt, and Frederick W. Vanderbilt as trustees for Anna H. Vanderbilt, signed by first two. Certificate #64, with engraved vignette of the state seal. October 16, 1944.
Item #23087, $750
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Sterling Silver Sinseollo Dish,
Presented to General Matthew Ridgway
by the Korean Minister of Defense
[MATTHEW B. RIDGWAY],
Traditional Korean dish, engraved around the base with four stars, and the inscription, “General & Mrs. M. B. Ridgway / From Defense Minister & Mrs. Ki Poong Lee / Republic of Korea,” ca. 1952.
Item #22366, $4,250
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