George
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Post by George on Oct 27, 2011 10:52:06 GMT 10
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George
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Post by George on Oct 28, 2011 12:46:40 GMT 10
This development motivated me to do some research on Outer Baldonia, some of which has now made its way into the Lomwiki article. Most of what I've read about Outer Baldonia hitherto has painted it as the amusing hobby of a harmless eccentric - which I've now learned is not entirely true. The micronation itself may well have been an eccentric sideline - but "Prince of Princes" Russell Arundel was an extremely wealthy and powerful business magnate who owned the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant on Long Island; at one point in 1947 Arundel paid a $20,000 "loan" (ie bribe) to Senator Joe McCarthy in order to facilitate the early end of sugar rationing in the US - which conveniently prevented the prosecution of Pepsi Co's sugar supplier for illegally evading wartime rationing controls.
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