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When Allied occupation forces moved into Germany in 1945, they all agreed that I. G. Farben, world's biggest chemical empire and a mainstay of the Nazi war machine, should be broken up. But they disagreed on how the job should be done. Since then, proposals to dispose finally of the 169 I. G. Farben companies in the West zone* have never gone beyond the talk stages...
Last week the Council of the Allied High Commission began acting as though it meant business. It ordered Farben's German properties broken up into an unspecified number of "economically sound and independent companies [to] ensure dispersion of ownership and control and promote competition . . ." The new law provided that no buyer or group of buyers would be allowed to merge two or more of the companies without an O.K. from the Allied High Commission, and it barred war criminals as well as major Nazi offenders from taking part in control or management of any of the companies...
...innuendo and misrepresentation." His competence had been questioned by Lehman, his international experience attacked by the Democratic organization (in newspaper ads) as "a myth." Sentences from Dulles' writings were taken out of context "in an effort to represent that his major loyalty was to the German I. G. Farben ... It was alleged that the Nazis were-and are-his clients . . . that he had looked with favor upon the rape of Czechoslovakia and that he favored the aggressive wars of the Axis. Attempt was made to identify him with the German-American Bund...
...prisoners seemed well-fed and healthy as they slipped out to freedom. Georg von Schnitzler, a onetime director of Germany's vast I.G. Farben trust, was whisked off by a chauffeur in a black limousine. But most of the paroled men trudged to the railway station near the prison, carrying boxes and bundles. Most were in good humor, but one growled darkly: "Things will change." Another added: "And then those who are out right now will...
...headquarters in the vast I.G. Farben building in Frankfurt, correspondents busily buttonholed U.S. officials and tried to pump them for news. Word had got out that High Commissioner John J. McCloy had received a new directive from Washington on U.S. policy in Germany. "I don't see what all the fuss is about," snapped one of McCloy's top aides. "There's very little in the directive that you couldn't have written yourself...