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Albert Jolis : ウィキペディア英語版 | Albert Jolis
Albert Jolis (1912-2000) was an American diamond dealer, head of the international firm Diamond Distributors, Inc, and a fund-raising anti-communist, serving in the 1980s as board chairman of Resistance International. ==World War Two and its aftermath== Jolis served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) with William Casey under Bill Donovan during World War II. In a letter to Arthur Koestler on 19 March 1946 George Orwell wrote that "Bert Jolis is very much of our way of thinking”.〔George Orwell, ''Collected Works in 20 volumes'', edited by Peter Davison.〕 They were planning to set up an anti-totalitarian League and Orwell had been talking to an American acquaintance about the sister organisation in the USA, the International Rescue Committee.〔Eric Thomas Chester, ''Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995.〕
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