Chapter 10

This leaves nothing for surmise. It is not unfair to conclude, in view of these facts, that for the directors of Ethyl Gasoline the preservation of I. G. good-will conflicted with the maintenance of good faith in dealings with their own government. Though duPont, from the beginning, was opposed to the entire deal on grounds of patriotic scruples, nevertheless it eventually deferred. In an inter-office memo of the duPont Company appears the following: “I think we should tell I.C.I. that the technical and engineering…