The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-24

ing head of Sterling, who has beel
: active in the company throughout it
utilization with Farben.
And there is Thomas G. Corcoran
who obtained the consent decree dis
solving the demonstrating Products
Inc, agreement, in which the Sterlin.
Products defendants were fined onl,
$4,000.
Laid Basis for the War
And there are dozens of Others
whose part in the creation of the Far
ben colossus must be known If Amer
leans are to be able to prosecute this
war successfully and to safeguard
their country in the future.
In Germany there are Hermann
Schmitz, head of Farben; Max Ilgner
chief of Farben's espionage service
and Hjalmar Schacht, financial genius
of the economic organization.
These men laid the groundwork fol
the war we are waging today. And
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plans that go far beyond mere mill
airy victory for Hitler and far be
yond a possible defeat for their pup
pet.
In America, there are Farben
agents. Their Identities and work,
when they become known, must re-
suit in their downfall as soon as the
American public knows the facts.
A State Within a State
| In 1920, Germany was in state
of near chaos. It's people were trus.
| trated, sullen. It's industries were dis
ordered. It's government, headed by
Fritz Ebert, was trying desperately
to reorganize a defeated monarchy
into republic against the forces of
internal anarchy.
1t was in that atmosphere that
seven men - whose thesis was that
Germany never loses a war met in
Frankfort-on-the-Ma to lay plans for
another drive for world conquest.
The Seven ConspIrators
These were the men, Karl Duis-
berg, head of the German Bayer Com
pany and the inventor of ersatz
clothes and food; Fritz Thyssen, mead
of the German coal and iron trust;
Hjalmar Schacht, an outstanding fl
nancier and former director OF the
National Bank of Germany; Hermann
Schmitz, wartime director of chemical
production; Max Ilgner, Schmitz's
young nephew and protege; Krupp
Won Bahlen and Halbach, head of the
Krupp works, the largest armament
firm in Germany; and Heinrich Cat
tineau, Duisberg's executive assistant.
The blueprint for the second World
War was drawn at that meeting, for
these seven men worked out seven
point program involving:
ID The destruction of the new Ger
man democracy; (2) The initiation of
the German currency in order to
foster financial confusion and to per-
NIT evasion of the war reparation pay
ments; CD Secret re-armament, de-
signed to give Germany striking
force greater than any other in the
world; (4) The creation of an all-pow-
erful corporate state within Germany,
to be dominated by themselves; 90
Cooperative agreements with leading
industrialists in all other primary
countries; CO. A worldwide system
of economic and political intelligence,
designed in part to provide sabotage
service when required; 90 The selec-
ton of a national political leader to
replace the constitution and to be con-
trolled by themselves so that they
could have power but still not appear
in public political office.
Basic to the understanding of Far
ben's Importance to Germany and to
the world is one major point. And
that is, that in Germany as in no
other nation, the chemical industry
is a state within state.
The chemical industry in the reich
has a universal nature, universal ram
ifications. Krupp can make cannon.
But the cannon is useless without de-
structive explosives. The United
States and Britain can boast of great
er self-sufficiency than Germany. But
Germany, for years, has held the sec
rets of essential dyes and chemicals, |
the patents for the manufacture of
vital war materials.
Duisberg Recognized This
AS long ago as 1904, Karl Duisberg |
the significance of the |
chemical industry in Germany, and
urged, in a memorandum to the i'm
perial government, that all chemical
firms be merged into one huge trust.
1.-THE worldwide rule of German in !
lustry, particularly the dye industry"
Duisberg said 38 years ago, would |
hen be secured for the future"
Duisberg was not exaggerating, |