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A Euro Border Guard and Hybrid Warfare. An Art Theft Perspective: Human Dimensions and a Moral Imperative

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Journal Article

Authors:

Charles Hill

Source:

Connections: The Quarterly Journal, Volume 15, Issue 4, p.111-120 (2016)

Keywords:

antiquities, art, Huba Wass de Czege, Human dimension, Liddell Hart, moral imperative, Sun Tzu

Abstract:

Art theft, particularly the looting of works of art from antiquity, is an element of today’s terrorism. Stealing and looting art works, including theft by destruction, are ancient and continuing practices. To counter art theft, modern hybrid, multifaceted or multidimensional warfare requires innovation. Integrated with the human dimension in countering art theft, there is an enduring moral imperative to combat and contain the worst effects of looting and the theft of art through anti-terrorism work. The idea of a European Army may be better thought of and developed as a Euro Border Guard, a gendarmerie with anti-smuggling art and antiquities training, leaving NATO to continue its mission.

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Before 9/11, when Mohammed Atta was at Hamburg’s Technical University, Atta made an attempt to sell stolen Afghan antiquities to subsidize the cost of his flying school training in the United States. The archaeologist at the Univer­sity of Gottingen to whom he made his approach in 1999 declined it, but it is indicative of one Islamist fanatic’s mindset.[1] Atta was not alone in his thinking. Antiquities from the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South Asia are useful in the world of Islamist fanaticism as potential money earners and for iconoclasm.

For centuries, theft in the art world has been of basically two types, stealing or looting in a conventional sense and theft by deception. In English law,[2] “theft itself is dishonestly appropriating the property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of it; and the terms ‘thief’ and ‘steal’ are construed accordingly.” Theft by deception includes fakes, forgeries, and frauds of all kinds, including theft through intentionally bogus provenance and wrongful attribution. This art fraud category of crime is where money is made by art crooks. However, there has been an upsurge in another kind of theft through the rise of international terrorism in recent decades – theft by destruction. (A development of cyber crime in the future may well develop art fraud and theft by algorithm as well.) But curiously, art theft also often pre­sents an Achilles’ heel for thieves in terrorist organizations, organized crime and for disorganized criminals.

Theft by destruction is a relatively new expression for an old concept. It oc­curs when art objects are destroyed and objects of cultural history are extir­pated by their destruction. In recent decades, the Bamiyan buddhas in Afghani­stan were destroyed by the Taliban, many medieval Sufi shrines were smashed by Ansar Dine (an Al Qaeda franchise) in Timbuktu, Mali in 2012, and important buildings and objects in Palmyra, Syria were destroyed by Da’esh in 2015. The dismal list goes on and on, with religious shrines of many varieties in Pakistan, Iraq and elsewhere blown up in the past two decades, often with devotees, pil­grims and tourists around them massacred. The World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York on 9/11 can be viewed as theft by destruction of those ex­amples of architectural art, whatever their value as shrines of mammon to the Al Qaeda fanatics who destroyed them, or to others who viewed them on the Manhattan skyline.

In Western Judaeo-Christian civilization with its great input from medieval Islam, a human and moral basis for countering theft begins with the Book of Genesis concept of stewardship, and is explicit in one of the Ten Command­ments, “Thou shalt not steal” (in the English words in the 1611 King James Ver­sion of the Bible). The concept of stewardship is a moral imperative rather than a morally relative matter, and extends to the worldly domain in which we live, in which our ancestors lived and our descendants will. It is a teaching among Koranic People of the Book, the monotheists of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and we influence one another and many who do not share it with us.

Hybrid or multifaceted warfare is seen in the calculations of Sun Tzu’s Art of War, Captain Basil Liddell Hart’s Indirect Approach, and Captain Wass’ Jedi Knight ideas. All provide insights into where we are today, and with them here in this article comes an added art crime perspective. The use of the word hy­brid is convenient shorthand for multifaceted warfare. Multidimensional may be better.

Sun Tzu was a Chinese warrior who wrote about military strategy roughly two and a half millennia ago. Of the many Art of War translations and commen­taries in English, Samuel B. Griffith’s translation with a foreword by B.H. Liddell Hart (Oxford, 1963) is comprehensive, especially about the crucial use of in­formants and information to develop war fighting intelligence.[3] Reading Clause­witz is the alternative, for what it’s worth in our era of warfare with terrorists that may last a long time.

Captain Liddell Hart served as a British Army infantry officer in the First World War. The horrors of trench warfare prompted him to design his ideas of the indirect approach which he published early in the Second World War. His strategy was essentially that armies should advance and fight along lines of least resistance and leaders should be innovative.[4]

Captain Wass – Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege (US Army Retired) was the company commander of A Company in the 3d Battalion of the 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173d Airborne Brigade in 1968-69, based at Bao Loc in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. I know that because I was a 11B2P [5] in November Platoon, C Company, the 3d of the 503d at that time. Wass was an innovative thinker and carried an impressive Bowie knife. My own company commander was Captain Harold Crowe, a Green Beret survivor. Both were he­roes to men who fought under them.

Captain Wass, instead of sticking to jungle paths to search out the enemy, who for us were an assortment of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units, used to get his men to cut up and down streams and rivers, blue lines on the maps we had, and intercept enemy forces that way. It was all small unit fighting at the squad and platoon level to fit the terrain and enemy, and the basic equip­ment we had. The rest of us, in other line companies, hacked our way through the vine-entwined hell of triple canopy rain forest with machetes, making a lot of noise and generally going nowhere, slowly following the fantasy trails and contours drawn by army cartographers. There is no point in overly complaining about our soldiering substance and style then. That’s the way it was.

Captain Wass went on from Vietnam to become one of the innovators of the post-Vietnam US Army.[6] He became known as a Jedi Knight at the time of the first Iraq War in Operation Desert Storm, and he had ideas which integrated AirLand Battle Doctrine into small wars much more effectively than we had seen in the Central Highlands years before. In retirement, he is still involved in hybrid warfare thinking as a civilian military strategist and consultant at the School of Advanced Military Studies at the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth.[7]

Captain Wass was a Sun Tzu-thinking, inspirational kind of leader, and a follower of Liddell Hart’s indirect approach. The present 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team, based in Vincenza, Italy owes much to him in the way it is orga­nized, equipped and ready to fight, as does the modern US Army.

The connection with Italy and hybrid warfare is striking and continues. In October 1969, Caravaggio’s famous painting of the Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence was stolen in Palermo from the Oratory of St. Lawrence. Within days, an attempt to steal another Sicilian Caravaggio from the Church of St. Lucy in Syracuse Cathedral square was made. In both cases, the Mafia was rightly blamed, but their apologists claimed that these art crimes were commit­ted because of actions by the oppressive Italian State against them.[8] That is non­sensical self-justification which we need to fight.

To make their own point clearer, in May 1993, La Cosa Nostra exploded a car bomb outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence that killed six people and de­stroyed three 17th century paintings. Those six dead were simply disregarded as collateral damage by the Mafia in what they considered to be their armed struggle with the Italian government, or at least that part of the government they had not already suborned. The Uffizi is one of the two major art museums in Florence and it was targeted for its importance to Italian society and to na­tional and international culture.[9]

In 1974, an IRA gang stole masterpiece paintings from Russborough, a Palla­dian mansion in the Dublin Mountains, County Wicklow.[10] That theft of art in­cluded works by Vermeer, Rubens and Goya. It was fortunate that the leader of the gang, Eddie Gallagher, had a posh debutante girlfriend, Bridget Rose Dug­dale. The paintings were recovered within months in the west of Ireland at her parents’ summer house. At her trial the English Rose said that she and her ac­complices stole the paintings in order to get two IRA prisoners serving their sentences in England repatriated to prisons in Ireland. Two others in that gang later went on to Colombia to instruct FARC in the use of mortars and explo­sives. In 1986, a Dublin gang with connections to both the IRA and Northern Irish Protestant terrorists in the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) again hit Russbo­rough and stole the same paintings.[11] That gang was led by Martin Cahill, known as The General, about whom two Hollywood gangster films have been made. By 1993, all of the paintings stolen by Cahill’s gang had been recovered except for two small Francesco Guardi capriccio scenes, and this success was due to the sensible use of criminal informants. I know that because I dealt with those informants.

On the night of St. Patrick’s Day 1990, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was robbed at gunpoint by two men wearing Boston Police Depart­ment uniforms.[12] The haul of paintings and two other items they stole are worth purportedly half a billion dollars, making this in dollar terms the highest value art crime ever. In the following years to the present, the FBI has pursued leads indicating that Italian Americans with Mafia connections committed that art robbery. The FBI’s Top Echelon Informant in 1990 was a Boston Irishman named Whitey Bulger, one of whose brothers had close personal connections with the IRA hierarchy. The informants for the FBI in this case appear to have been counter-productive. It will become a case study in ineffective informant handling one day.

It would seem that the FBI took the wrong road twenty-five years ago. The Bureau has been pursuing the wrong trail to recover the Gardner Museum works of art: it was probably not the American-linked Cosa Nostra but the pre-Good Friday Agreement IRA that was involved. Of course, it may have been other thieves, freelance operators, neither Mafia- nor IRA-related, but there are many open and unanswered questions about the FBI’s investigation over the past quarter of a century. The significant aspect of that art robbery was the copy-cat nature to Martin Cahill’s art crimes. It may be that the wrong people have influenced the Gardner investigation. In 1994, Cahill was murdered by the IRA for his links to the Protestant terrorist UVF.

Also in 1994, at the start of the Winter Olympics held in Lillehammer, Nor­way, the original version of Edvard Munch’s Scream was stolen from the Na­tional Gallery in Oslo. Again in 2004, also in Oslo but from the Munch Museum, another version of The Scream was stolen. The 1994 set of thieves were local thugs, but the 2004 set were largely Kosovar Albanians living in Gothenburg, Sweden who had committed an armed robbery on a NOKAS cash in transit ve­hicle in Stavanger, Norway a few months earlier, wearing camouflage clothes with automatic weapons. They murdered a local police officer. To be a distrac­tion crime, they organized that armed robbery of the second version of The Scream. With colleagues from Oslo and London, I was an undercover police of­ficer in the 1994 recovery, but as a retired cop in 2004, my activities and inter­est in the second art crime were spurned when I pointed out the multinational nature of the people involved in the crime. However, the Oslo police did re­cover that second version of The Scream two years later in 2006 with a blan­dishment of a million M&Ms reward to one of the organizers of the crime, a chocoholic of Albanian background named David Toska. Informants are key to solving art crime, and the wider the informants’ international links are, the more useful they can be. Of course, they can be self-serving liars too.

In the months before 9/11, giant Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban in Bamiyan, a remote area of central Afghanistan. One had been in place for over eighteen hundred years.[13] Although there is no authority in the Koran to destroy images such as those giant stone buddhas, there are a few re­ligious texts (hadiths) from Islamic antiquity that positively advise against rep­resentation in art. Fanatics in Islam are therefore comparable to the fanatics in the sixteenth and seventeenth century Protestant Reformation who destroyed the images of medieval Catholic Christianity, or the iconoclasts within the Greek Orthodox Church in the eighth and ninth centuries. The secular French Revolution and the Russian Revolution were both destructive and iconoclastic. Historical perspective tends to help winnow out theft fads from ideological or theological madness.

The American War of Independence was neither destructive nor iconoclas­tic. The significance of that was summed up about a hundred and sixty years af­ter the American Revolution by General Eisenhower at the Metropolitan Mu­seum of Art in New York on April 2, 1946, “... I do know that for democracy, at least, there always stand beyond the materialism and destructiveness of war the ideals for which it is fought.” He then went on to speak about a post-war resurgence of attention to cultural values.[14]

Interestingly, when Al Qaeda bands (known locally as Ansar Dine) came out of the Sahara Desert and attacked Timbuktu, Mali, in 2012, they were hell-bent on destroying the Muslim shrines of medieval Sufi saints and the Islamic librar­ies that had been collected from over half a millennium. Recently, at the Inter­national Court of Justice at The Hague, an Al Qaeda leader in Timbuktu, Ahmad al-Faqi al Madi, appealed to the Court that he had seen the light and repented of his iconoclasm. The Court decided to convict and sentenced him to nine years’ imprisonment. It will be worth knowing what his fellow iconoclasts in Al Qaeda and Da’esh make of that repentance and his sentence, if anything.

Da’esh attempted to destroy the antiquities of Palmyra in 2015/16 but they were then forced to retreat back towards Raqqa on the Euphrates near Iraq. In August 2016, to celebrate their victory over Da’esh, Russians brought a sym­phony orchestra to Palmyra and played music where Da’esh had tortured, be­headed and crucified the torso of Khaled al-Asaad, the 83 year old archaeolo­gist and caretaker of the site a few months earlier. From Damascus itself, the Syrian Antiquities director-general, visiting an International Cultural Summit in Edinburgh, said that three-quarters of the looted antiquities seized in anti-smuggling operations have proved to be fakes. They include fake ancient Bibles and Korans.[15] Remember that theft by deception is still theft.

Hybrid, multifaceted, multidimensional warfare, requires consideration of both cultural and anti-cultural elements in conflict, just as General Eisenhower spoke about it directly after the Second World War, and just as the Russians with their symphony orchestra in Palmyra in midsummer 2016 played it. Art theft by destruction, with art theft of all kinds, is a part of our wider world of warfare.

What is to be done? [16] Those old words of Lenin translated into English sug­gest that something should be done, and as Ike suggested in 1946, things can be done with positive outcomes. The Marshall Plan helped to achieve those. Today that means innovation integrated with our resources, perhaps best through an indirect approach to the problems of art theft by Islamist fanatics. Sun Tzu, Captain Basil Liddell Hart and Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege reveal that intellectual grasp.

For a start we could improve policing, particularly at borders (including ports and airports). In paramilitary policing contexts, where objects are being transported across boundaries and they are either in the direct control of art thieves and dishonest handlers, or conveyed by their proxies.

Stolen art and looted antiquities can feature more prominently in terms of stop, search, arrest and seizure where necessary. Talking sensibly to the person stopped and searched is highly important.

Second, anti-theft laws can be tightened internationally, and more im­portantly nationally. Law enforcement could be directed to consider the signifi­cance of art crime as a potential Achilles’ heel to criminal organizations, whether specifically terrorist-oriented or against quasi-gangster state opera­tions. Military units in conflict zones can assist paramilitary border forces with that objective.

Third, a far better use of live informants could and should be encouraged for law enforcement officials. In each of the stolen art recoveries mentioned above in this article, all those operations were informant-led. That means the informants did not run the operations but they did provide crucial information. Better training in the use and handling of informants is the key to successful re­coveries for stolen art and looted antiquities. Also, an under-used kind of in­formation gathering is through Open Source, or Internet-related, material that does not require an Interception of Communications Warrant. The develop­ment of electronic eavesdropping can corroborate what human source inform­ants say, and provide established links to others, and their locations.

The EU Commission’s recent bright idea of a European Army (2015-16) [17] could be more effectively re-figured as an effective paramilitary border guard given the right training and organization. In fact, Retired Brigadier General Wass de Czege (once a Staff Officer at NATO in Brussels) should be consulted. He would know how to do it. His key to successful innovation is integration. The EU Commission’s best bet would be to complement NATO, and not to try or­ganizing a parallel universe.

What used to be referred to as consciousness-raising is an integral part of educating and assisting in the fight against art crime; against looting, stealing and faking in all of their guises. Although stolen art in wartime and in small wars against terrorists is not a central issue in the War on Terror, it is a signifi­cant peripheral matter and one that can assist democratic societies to order their priorities in the fight and when the fight is over. After all, what are we fighting for if not a civilized society for our own and future generations, and as an acknowledgement of past disasters in human civilizations?

Kenneth Clark was an eminent aesthete in the late twentieth century who produced a book and TV series called Civilization. In it he wrote and said to camera, “...order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven’t changed much in the last two thousand years; and in con­sequence we must try to learn from history. History is ourselves.” And then he added, “Above all, I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.” [18] (By certain individuals he meant the great artists of antiquity, of yesterday and today.)

We need to work on innovative ideas and indirect approaches that will ena­ble us to achieve that. Preserving major works of art from antiquity to our pre­sent, and for our future, necessitates it.

 

 

 

 

About the author

Charles Hill served two years in the US Army, after volunteering for the Draft (conscription) in 1967 he had basic, infantry and parachute training. On re­turning from Vietnam, he received a BA in History from George Washington University (Washington, DC) and was a Fulbright Scholar at Trinity College Dublin. Having retired as a Detective Chief Inspector from the Metropolitan Po­lice (New Scotland Yard) in London in 1997, he works at recovering stolen and looted works of art worldwide. E-mail: hillartrisk@aol.com.

 
[1]    Atta’s attempted antiquities dealings are reported by Heather Pringle, “New Evi­dence Ties Illegal Antiquities Trade to Terrorism, Violent Crime,” National Geo­graphic Magazine 6, no. 13 (June 2014), accessed August 23, 2016, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140613-looting-antiquities-archaeology-cambodia-trafficking-culture/, derived from German intelligence service sources, the Bundesnachrichtendienst.
[2]    The definition of theft in English law can be found in Section 1 (1), Theft Act 1968. See J.C. Smith, The Law of Theft, Second Edition (London: Butterworths, 1972), 8ff. Also in English law, the Criminal Damage Act 1971 deals inadequately with the de­struction of art.
[3]    A more recent translation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War by John Minford (Penguin, 2002) is terse and trenchant, but conveys a comparable strength of character as a text and the ambition to be an instruction book, although it is more oriented to business managers than to soldiers’ leaders. A coffee table size edition is also available from the Folio Society in London (2007). It is essentially a reprint of Roger Ames’ transla­tion published by Ballantine Books of Random House in 1993, but with a preface by General Sir Rupert Smith applying Sun Tzu’s ideas to his command of UN forces in the 1995 relief of Sarajevo. Sun Tzu is worth reading in whatever form you find his thoughts about multifaceted and hybrid aspects of warfare, and especially on gath­ering information and developing that into intelligence through the use of agents. For that, see Sun Tzu, The Art of War, translated by Samuel B. Griffiths (Oxford: OUP, 1963), 144–149.
[4]    Basil Liddell Hart, The Way to Win Wars: The Indirect Approach (London: Faber and Fa­ber, 1942). Sir Basil was controversial among fellow historians in his later writing on strategy because he interviewed German generals after the war and is supposed to have convinced them to say to him that they implemented his ideas in their Blitz­krieg, a term that he coined for them. Although there may be some truth to that gibe, who knows? What is known as Sayre’s Law, named after a Columbia University political scientist, is “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics because the stakes are so low.”
[5]    11B2P is a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), Light Weapons Infantry, Junior NCO, Parachute qualified. The TOE (Tables of Organization and Equipment) of the 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team today has two battalions of airborne infantry, and plenty of artillery, armored vehicles, helicopter units and support services.
[6]    Joe Kubert, Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965 (New York: DC Comics Library, 2010). This book is called a graphic novel. Captain Crowe is Carter in this illustrated book (for no ap­parent reason), but his role in the battle and his real name do appear in the Detach­ment A-342 appendix.
[7]    Colonel Huba Wass de Czege, US Army, “How to Change an Army,” Military Review LXIV, no. 11 (November 1984): 33–49. From this seminal article, General Norman Schwarzkopf’s Jedi Knights prepared for battle in the First Gulf War. The only aspect of Captain Wass’ trenchant views on reforming the US Army after Vi­etnam that are questioned by this loyal admirer of his, US 51668287 Hill, is his reli­ance on highly trained officers. Good enlisted men, particularly NCOs, are worth their weight in gold in small wars: read Matti Friedman’s Pumpkin Flowers (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2016) about an Israeli Defense Force infantry outpost on a hill in Lebanon in 1998. Friedman also wrote The Aleppo Codex(Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2013) about pages of a book that went missing after it was recovered from the Great Synagogue of Aleppo in 1947. The missing pages went missing in the 1950s with the remainder of it now in the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The entire man­uscript codex had been stolen by Frankish knights in the First Crusade (in 1099, dur­ing the sack of Jeru­salem) but Saladin had dispossessed them of it and kept it in Al­exandria (where Maimonides consulted it) until the merchants of Aleppo bought the Codex back from him. The Codex was the first complete Hebrew bible, and known as The Crown. The worst of Crusaders’ theft and destruction of art, however, was their sacking of Con­stantinople in 1204 at the start of the Fourth Crusade.
[8]    Giovanni Falcone, with Marcelle Padovani, Men of Honour: The Truth about the Ma­fia (London: Fourth Estate, 1992), 161–162. This book is Judge Falcone’s last testa­ment before he was murdered by the Mafia in May 1992. Also, Bill Emmott, Good It­aly, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012). Emmott was the editor of The Economist magazine and made himself unpopular with Silvio Berlusconi with this book.
[9]    Falcone, Men of Honour.
[10]  Edward Dolnick, The Rescue Artist (New York: HarperCollins, 2005); and, in the UK as Stealing the Scream (Cambridge: Icon Books, 2007).
[11]  Dolnick, The Rescue Artist / Stealing the Scream, “The General,” 56–60. Michael Bur­leigh, Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism (London: Harper, 2008), 342.
[12]  Ulrich Boser, The Gardner Heist (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 113ff.
[13]  K. Warikoo, ed., Bamiyan: Challenge to World Heritage (New Delhi: Third Eye, 2002), xi and 14; see also, Rohan Gunaratna and Khuram Iqbal, Pakistan: Terrorism Ground Zero (London: Reaktion Books, 2011). See on p. 91 a list of targets. It is worth com­paring the Taliban/Al Qaeda/Da’esh mentalities with Protestant Reformation fa­nat­ics in Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002);Noah Charney, ed., Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), containing Matthew Bogdanos, “Thieves of Baghdad: And the Terrorists They Finance,” 118–131. This chapter is adapted from Colonel Bog­danos’ book, Thieves of Baghdad (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2005). Jason Burke, The New Threat from Islamic Militancy (London: The Bodley Head, 2015), 44–45 for the Wahhabi sect’s cult of destruction. Alan Besancon’s The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm, translated by Jane Marie Todd (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 78–79. The Art Newspaper online, 27 September 2016 for al-Madhi’s sentence.
[14]  A photograph in the US National Archives from the year before his Metropolitan Mu­seum speech (April 12, 1945) showed General Eisenhower in the Merkers saltmine near the Harz Mountains in his Class A military uniform (flat hat, tie and belted trench coat look) with General Bradley and General Patton in their helmet liners and ODs (olive drab fatigues – or BDU, battle dress uniform) looking at loot the Nazis had stolen from millions of murdered Jews, and others. Compare that photo with availa­ble archive photographs of Field Marshall Herman Goering looking at his looted art collection. The year after Ike’s Metropolitan Museum speech (General Dwight D. Ei­senhower, “Art in Peace and War” in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (New Series) 4, no. 9 (May, 1946), 221–223), in May 1947 to alumni at the Harvard Univer­sity graduation, General Marshall unveiled his Plan to rebuild Western European civ­ilization. Now we need to preserve it and to help others rebuild.
[15]  Tim Cornwell, “Three-quarters of seized artefacts are fakes, says Syrian official,” The Art Newspaper, no. 282 (September 2016), 5.
[16]  Vladimir I. Lenin, “What is to be done,” Iskra, no. 4 (May 1901); and in paperback (Lon­don: CreateSpace, 2014), p. 196 of Leninism.
[17]  Andrew Sparrow, “Jean-Claude Juncker calls for EU Army,” The Guardian online, March 8, 2015 (in order to save face with Russia), accessed August 7, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/jean-claude-juncker-calls-for-eu-army-european-commission-miltary.
[18]  Kenneth Clark, Civilisation (London: John Murray, 2005) (first published by the BBC in 1969), 245–246. A warning when we win our War on Terror in Alistair Horne, Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015).