other elements, this bond would assist both countries in
withstanding 20th century extreme monarchism, fascism,
nazism and communism.
Though Putzi (Ernst Hanfstaengl), Hitler���s favorite piano
player and propagandist, tried to inform the Nazi leader
of that bond, Hitler probably never fully realized or
appreciated that Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
were distant cousins; a result of an Anglo-American
Blenheim connected marriage that would alter the history
of the twentieth century.
Yet these marriage stories begin as much in Brooklyn,
as much among the Iroquois, as much among New
England blacksmiths and as much among Staten Island
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