Evening star., 1941-06-23
On the Record
The Grouse Tuiks About Nozi Cells
In American Chemical Corporations

Corporations
these guys could find out whom
they're working for, wouldn't
you?"
Standard Also Ignorant.
The Grouse showed back his
chair, and dove into his news
paper again.
"And there's a report from
Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Standard Oil of New Jersey
doesn't know anything either.
Really, these boys ought to get
around more. Ten-twelve years
ago, 1t seems they set up a COM
pany called Standard I. G. to
make Oil out of coal according to
a process they got from the Ger
man dye trust. Standard of New
Jersey owned 80 per cent, and
the German dye trust 20 per cent
of the stock until the war came
along, and then Standard of New
Jersey bought it all, if I under
stand this legal language. Then
they changed the name of this
company to Standard Catalytic.'
Along about 1929, American
I. G.-that's our friend General
Aniline-got a very large block
of stock in Standard of New
Jersey-So much stock that, next
to Mr.. Rockefeller, it was the
largest single Stockholder. That,
it seems, was part payment for
the hydrogenation patent. They
got the stock well beneath the
market price. But since then"
the, Grouse read farther .
"Since then, that stock has
passed into other hands. Whose
is not Indicated"
"Edsel Ford was on the board
of General Aniline at one time.
He got off. When and why Is
not Indicated"
No Pickets and Signs.
"You see," said the Grouse,
You are not about Communist
cells in trade unions, and rightly
so, but when it comes to NaZi
cells in American corporations,
that is much harder to find out
about, because they fix things
up quietly and don't go out with
pickets and signs.
But I don't exactly know why
we allow companies of unknown
origins, but considerable circum-
stantial evidence, to operate in
this country.
Somebody is spending a lot
of money in this country for
Nazi propaganda. and my spies
say that it comes in some way
from or through the German
dye trust, whose brothers and
uncles and things don't know
what their relatives are doing.
"An American company en-
gagged in the chemical line, and
related by blood as it we're
by blood and oil-to the German
chemical company might know
something about American in
dustrial and military secrets,
mightn't it?
"You talk about irresponsible
trade union leaders, and I think
you are right. but how about
irresponsible officials of a cor
poration who say they don't
know who Is hiring them?
Wh0'S INTERNATIONAL:
How do you think this coun-
try is going to keep its shirt, in
war or in peace, if American
corporations do business all over
the world exactly as they please,
resenting any investigation into
who's who, while Nazi corpora
tions all work exclusively in the
interests of Hitler's Reich? How
long do you think we can get on
if German corporations are work.
ing for Hitler and against Roose-
welt and American corporations
are working against Roosevelt
and with Hitler?"
And, of course, at all times
against each other?"
"T'he thing that gives one
laugh" concluded the Grouse, sis
that the Nazis say that the Jews
are international bankers and
men without a country. How
about international Industrial
lists? If the oil trusts have a
country I don't know where it
is. And if Nazis have a country
I don't know any more where
that is. Wherever there's loot,
I guess"
And wasn't it Hitler who told
us to stay over on our side of the
ocean,"
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)