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Growled Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott: "Here's one for you, Adolf." Then he pressed a button. A mile away, 59 concrete buildings of the I. G. Farben's Kauf-beuren gunpowder works were blown to smithereens by G.I. dynamite charges...
They could recall two major incidents: 1) French newspapers once charged that Allied flyers had spared I. G. Farben fac tories (some U.S. papers had also printed it); 2) a sensational yarn that U.S. troops destroyed supplies which French civilians might have used (a story which the French were slow to correct when proved wrong). Aside from these, the French press - as best exemplified by the Paris dailies -has been almost timid in discussing its great western ally. The further fact is that the old, rowdy prewar Paris press is either dead or sound asleep...
...great I. G. Farben plant in Leverkusen has already asked the Military Government for permission to make a long list of chemicals out of raw materials on hand. Meanwhile it is feeding 6,000 workers a day out of its food stocks. In Wetzlar, there is a steel plant which covers approximately 16 city-blocks. The Army noted: "Despite tremendous bomb damage around the plant, it has not been injured except by foreign workers...
...Among industrialists arrested or marked for arrest: René Duchemin (French Employers Federation), JosephTrotard (Francolor, an I. G. Farben stooge). François Lehideux (auto magnate, ex-Vichy Production Minister), Hypolite Worms (banker). Others: René Fonck (World War I ace), Georges Grappe (Rodin Museum Curator), Albert Blaser (Director of Maxim's), Jean-Hérold Paquis (radio commentator), Bernard Faÿ (historian). Most of the Directors of the Bank of France were suspended...
...Nazis an even shrewder clout. At the express request of the U.S. Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer aspirin cross.* Thereafter, the trademarks will be kept off the market and German exporters will be forced to promote brand-new trade names...