The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-04
By Dregc Pearson

On the subject of luhricating oils, the T. c. Far ben memo was generous in praise for the excellent work done by Americans. Tn this connect,on. tne memo said i've obtained not only the experiences os Standard but, through Standard, the experience ok General Motors and other large American motor companies as well"
 Discussing hieh-octane gasoline the I. e. Terben memo dscloses how the Nazis maintained slxlctest secrecy when 1t came to telling stanasso On OlA''A'S what they were doing The memo states;
 "Ddr. Haslam further declares that the German aircraft industry in contrast to the American ana English, could not have been changed over 70 tne use of iso-octane, From this the conclusion ml8ng be drawn that we did not know the process for so- octane However, we used other methods 70 prouuce so-octane and chose to proceed by way oI lsopu.y! alcohol which is produced from carbon monoxlue anu hydrogen, that is to say on pure coal basis Appar- ently this fact is unknown to the Americans At any rate, we maintained the strctest secrecy in ah nego- tiations about the fact that we produce Bo-octane on an industrial scale. .
 "Especially in the case of isooctane, 1t Is shown that we owe much to the Americans because in our own work we would draw wdey on terS nMerOsn Nora- over, we were also kept currently informed py tne Americans on the progress of their production pro- cess and its further development
 "shortIy before the war new method for pro- duction of iso-ocane was found in Amerca aikylSa- ton with isomeri2ation as Q preliminary step Tnds process, which MT. Hasam does not mention at ail, originates in fact entirely with the Americans ana has become known to us in detail in iS separaLe stages through our agreements with them, ana IS being used very extensively by us"
 Summing up the situation regarding gasoline the memo states:
 Tt must be noted that particularly in the case of production of aviation gasoline on an iso-octane basis, hardly anything was given to the Americans while we gained lot"
 Turning to toluol, the Farben study stated that T. G. technically so improved the aromatisauon through the discovery of catalysts that the pros duction of aromatic fuels became possible on large scale. The Americans learned nothing from us about this l. When MT. Haslafn, in connection with toluol talks of Q miracle which has fallen to the Americans through the hydrogenation process, his statement is not correct for toluol can be pro- duced by hydrogenaton in America"
 Finally the Germans used their American col- leagues to accumulate stores of oil and gasoline in the US.A. for transportation to Germany Eegarulng this the I. c. Farben report states Tn lVSO, our government had the greatest interest in gathering from abroad stock of especially valuable petroleum products Gin particular, aviation gasoline and avia- ton lubrictng oil) and holding 1t in reserve to on amount approximately equal to 920,O00O00 at market value. The German government asked I. O. if 1t were not possible the basis of It's friendly relations With standafd oil, to buy this amount as l. o-actually, however as trustee of the German government.
 "The fact that we actually succeeded, by means of the most difficult negotiations, in buying the quantity desired by our government from the Amer" ican Standard oil Company and the Dutch-English Royal-D -Dutch.she group and in transporting it to Germany was made possible only through the aid of the Standard Oil O." t