Chapter 23

The carefully laid plans were put into effect upon the outbreak of war. Forinvent advised the British Empire companies to get their further supplies from Schering Corporation and at the same time advised the latter to supply them, which it did. The fact that the British government acted quickly and placed Forinvent and its subsidiaries in Latin America on the blacklist partially upset the plans which had been made. In view of the increasing anti-German attitude in the United States and the possibility of this count…