Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19

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Subject: [Leica] Greece's woes
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:24:06 +0930
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Good - the pillage needs to stop (don't think it isn't ongoing) and
some reversal under agreed terms would be great.

Marty

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:
> I suspect if we go that route, a lot of countries will get into trouble 
> with
> China - and China is now the 800 lbs gorilla!
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> A good proportion of Greece's (and other countries') most famous
>> historic objects were stolen and are on display in museums in other
>> countries. ?The answer could be much simpler than creating the Pepsi
>> Parthenon: figure out where the most important objects are, and send
>> bills for rent in arrears. ?The Parthenon/Elgin marbles since 1812 -
>> that should add up to, oh, about 10% of Greece's sovereign debt,
>> surely?
>>
>> Marty
>>
>>
>>
>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Greece's woes)
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