Thanks for the pic. :)
Thought after the outbreak of the war Churchill asked America to hold safe the magna carta. By 41, USA industries were tooling up and producing to support Britan and France (Think “lend lease” had started by then). Bill Knudsen’s advisory committee had managed to sow seeds that would turn into the production marvel that was the USA in WWII.
“Freedom’s Forge” ..How American Business Produced Victory in WWII By Arthur Herman.
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Related:
http://www.delgazette.com/news/opinion-opinion_columns/153224190/Happy-birthday-Magna-Carta
“What few people realize, however, is that the original charter was in effect for only 10 weeks. Having been backed into a corner, King John wrote to the pope, stating that he was forced into signing it and offering to give in to all of the pope’s demands if the pope would side with him on rescinding the Magna Carta. Pope Innocent III was more than willing to do so and, in August 1215, issued a papal bull declaring “utterly canceling and making void” all of its provisions.”
“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.”
— Magna Carta; June 10, 1215
“[We] do utterly reprobate and condemn this agreement and under ban of anathema we command that neither the King shall presume to observe it nor the Barons and their accomplices to require its observation.”
— Papal bull; Aug. 24, 1215
It looks like the paragraph hadn’t been invented yet. :)