Chapter 71

“Of course what we have in mind is protecting this minority interest in the event of war between ourselves and Germany as it would certainly be very undesirable to have this 20% interest in Standard-I. G. passed to an Alien Property Custodian who might sell to an unfriendly interest.” Another case shows how devious and complex cartel schemes can be. Briefly, the Siemens-Halske Company of Germany and the Beryllium Corporation of America entered into an agreement concerning the production and distribution of berylliu…