I Hope The Guggenheim Plan Will Be

I Am A Passionate Traveler, And From The Time I Was A Child, Travel Formed Me As Much As My Formal Education. In Order To Appreciate Cultures Of Another Nation, One Needs To Go There, Know The People And Mingle With The Culture Of That Country. One Way To Do That, If One Is Lucky Enough, Is To Buy Things From Those Cultures.

Mother's Taste Was Eclectic And Ranged From The Ancient World To The Contemporary From Europe To The U.s.

There Have Been People.. Ever Since I've Had Any Kind Of Position In The World.. Who Have Accused Me Of Being Ruler Of The World. I Have To Say That I Think For The Large Part, I Would Have To Decide To Describe Them As Crack Pots. It Makes No Sense Whatsoever, And Isn't True, And Won't Be True, And To Raise It As A Serious Issue Seems To Me To Be Irresponsible.

We Are Grateful To The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine And Other Great Publications Whose Directors Have Attended Our Meetings And Respected Their Promises Of Discretion For Almost 40 Years......it Would Have Been Impossible For Us To Develop Our Plan For The World If We Had Been Subjected To The Lights Of Publicity During Those Years. But, The World Is More Sophisticated And Prepared To March Towards A World Government. The Supernational Sovereignty Of An Intellectual Elite And World Bankers Is Surely Preferable To The National Autodetermination Practiced In Past Centuries.

If Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention, Discontent Is The Father Of Progress.