DARKHORSE IN BERLIN SWEEPSTAKES
Darkhorse In Berlin Sweepstakes THE real race for the German capital is not between the Russian and American armies. There's enother entry—a darkhorse—in the Berlin sweepstakes that will probably...
...Biddle's report ties in very neatly with an exclusive story in The Progressive's "Washington Calling" column in the Mar...
...The cartel crowd is faced only with whatever opposition the Department of Justice back in Washington is able to muster in a capital which is too much engrossed in other matters...
...If you're a betting man and have the wherewithal, put it on the international cartel gang...
...5 issue that the advance agents for some of America's most powerful corporate interests are already buzzing around Europe in various official capacities...
...It is of the utmost importance that these operations of our enemies in the economic field should be fully uncovered and understood," he said, "the more so since their European establishments shortly will fall into Allied hands...
...And it was no casual offhand tip made on a street corner, but was contained in the official report of the Justice Department to Congress...
...The reconversion period will present enormous problems if competitive enterprise is to be strengthened and new wartime productive capacity put to work in a civilian economy...
...The problem of subjecting them to appropriate control must be solved, for the sake of our domestic security, as well as for the future of the postwar world...
...Small Business Out In his report to Congress, Biddle declared that his department "is aware of the fact that many international agreements allocating world territories are merely in abeyance during the war," and disclosed that the Justice Department is studying the techniques by which the German cartelists invaded the economies of other countries...
...The race for Berlin, as you can see, is far from being anybody's race...
...with Hitler's industrial sponsors in the prewar days are going to look for new pals in Germany...
...You can stake your shirt that the postwar cartel agreements are going to be written far in advance of the peace treaty...
...The Cartel Line-up The Progressive disclosed that business-cartel names chosen to direct policy in conquered, occupied Germany included the following: Allen W. Dulles, brother of John Foster Dulles and also a member of the corporation law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, long noted for its tieup with the power trust and the international nickel cartel...
...Paul Mellon and David Bruce, son and son-in-law of the late Andrew Mellon...
...This trend, the Attorney General remarked, has eliminated small business in many fields...
...No less an authority than the Attorney General of the United States, Francis Biddle, whose business it is to keep tabs on the :artel boys, came through with the tip.last week that secret international negotiations for resumption of cartel arrangements are already underway "in numerous instances...
...The reason given for the appointment of these men to strategic policy making positions is that they are from the only class of American people who had contact with Germany prior to the war...
...The large corporations will emerge "much more powerful than before the war," he said...
...Lester Armour of the Chicago Armours...
...Biddle emphasized the urgent need for strengthening the anti-trust laws and warned that the war is creating an "inevitable concentration of business with a comparatively small number of companies" dominating war production...
...The Progressive's report has since been confirmed by other publications...
...Junius and Henry Morgan of the House of Morgan...
...It may be that these Americans who were so willing to play "patent, patent, who's got the patent...
...There's enother entry—a darkhorse—in the Berlin sweepstakes that will probably beat them both by a mile...
...The American and Russian armies still have to hurdle a fanatically resisting German army...
...If they do seek out and attempt to strengthen any of the democratic elements within Germany it will be a remarkable departure from the policies they have followed in this country...
...The contact, of course, was with the cartel crowd in Germany which lent itself with such distinction to Hitler's scheme of paralyzing the industrial capacity of the democracies through cartel agreements...
...It may be...
...Alfred du Pont of the munitions family, and several others...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 14
