Random Notes

decade in exile . . . the Nobels fought to recover what had been seized by the Bolsheviks. But as the Soviets with Lenin’s New Economic Policy [the detente of the Twenties] and with massive injections of Western aid . . . outmaneuvered their opponents . . . the Nobels gradually realized the futility of their position. The Russian Rockefellers became simply the Swedish Nobels, destined to fade away in the shadow of Alfred.”

Our ignorance becomes no longer a mystery: