Edward Griffin World Without Cancer The Story of Vitamin B17

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.This was1.For an excellent account of Farben's role in administering these camps, seeThe Devil's Chemists, by Josiah E.DuBois, Jr., legal counsel and investigator forextremely wise, as was demonstrated later at the Nurembergthe prosecution at the trial of I.G.Farben's leaders at Nuremberg, (Boston:trials.Almost all of these men were deeply involved with theBeacon Press, 1952).determination of Nazi policies throughout the war and even2.See Krebs' own personal account, written under the pen name of Jan Valtin,entitled Out of the Night (New York: Alliance Book Corp., 1941).Richard Krebs isnot related to Dr.Ernst T.Krebs, Jr.1.Ibid., pp.63, 69.3.As quoted by Ambruster, Treason's Peace, op.cit., p.273.2.Ibid., p.106.202 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part Twoprograms, labor laws, tariffs, tax reform, military contracts, and,yes, even cancer research.We are assured, however, that thesemanipulators are just businessmen.They are not politicallymotivated for, otherwise, they would run for office or wouldChapter Fifteenaccept appointments to important public posts.If they have anypolitical ideology at all, undoubtedly, they must oppose socialismbecause, see, they are rich capitalists! They may be guilty of greedWAR GAMESand a little graft, but nothing more serious than that.Let us hope that the memory of Auschwitz and BuchenwaldGermany's industrial preparations for Worldwill dispel such nonsense while there still is time.War II; the continued support by Americanindustrialists given to Farben and to the Naziregime during this period; and the profitablerole played by Ford and ITT in war productionfor both Nazi Germany and the United States.By 1932 it was obvious to many observers that Nazi Germanywas preparing for war.It was equally obvious that I.G.Farbenwas both the instigator and the benefactor of these preparations.It was during these years that German industry experienced itsgreatest growth and its highest profits.In the United States, however, things were not going assmoothly for the cartel subsidiaries and partners.As the wardrew nearer, the American companies continued to share theirpatents and technical information on their newest processes.ButFarben was returning the favor less and less- especially if theinformation had any potential value in war production, whichmuch of it did.When the American companies complained,Farben replied that it was forbidden by the Nazi government togive out this information and, that if they did so, they would be inserious trouble with the authorities!Meanwhile, the American companies continued to honor theirend of the contracts, mostly because they were afraid not to.Inalmost every case Farben controlled one or more patents thatwere vital to their operations, and any overt confrontation couldeasily result in a loss of these valuable processes which wouldmean business disaster.This was particularly true in the field ofrubber.Rubber is basic to modern transportation.It is a companionproduct to gasoline inasmuch as it supplies the wheels which aredriven by the gasoline engines.Without rubber, normal economiclife would be most difficult.Warfare would be impossible.204 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part TwoWAR GAMES205I.G.had perfected the process for making buna rubber but didThe production of the drug atabrine effective in the treat-not share the technology with its American partners.Standardment of malaria also was hindered by the cartel.Quinine wasOil, on the other hand, had been working on another process forthe preferred prescription, but it was entirely controlled by abutyl rubber and passed on all of its knowledge and techniques.Dutch monopoly which possessed its only source in Java.TheSasuly summarizes the situation that resulted: Dutch company apparently chose not to join the internationalcartel, however, because Farben entered into competition byTrue to their obligations to the Nazis, Standard sent the butylmarketing its own drug, atabrine, a synthetic substitute.Wheninformation.But they did not feel any obligation to the U.S.Navy.Inthe Japanese captured Java, the United States was totally depend-1939, after the outbreak of war, a representative of the Navy'sent on Nazi Germany as a source.Needless to say, the cartel didBureau of Construction and Repair visited Standard's laboratoriesnot share the manufacturing technology of atabrine with theand was steered away from anything which might give clues as tothe manufacture of butyl.United States, and it took many months after Pearl Harbor beforeStandard did not have the full buna rubber information.But American drug firms could produce an effective material.Mean-what information it did have, it only gave to the U.S.rubber makers while, the first GIs who fought in the Pacific Islands sufferedafter much pressure by the government when war was alreadyimmensely from malaria with no drugs to treat it thanks againunderway.As for butyl rubber, Standard did not give full rights toto the cartel.manufacture under its patents until March, 1942.The American development of optical instruments was yetBecause of a cartel of the natural rubber producers, the Unitedanother victim of this era.The firm of Bausch and Lomb was theStates found itself facing an all-out war without an adequate rubberlargest producer of American high-quality lenses of all kinds.stock-pile.And because of the operation of the I.G.-Standard OilMost of these lenses were manufactured by the German firm ofcartel, no effective program for making synthetic rubber wasZeiss.As was the pattern, American technology was deliberatelyunderway.(1)retarded by cartel agreement.Aluminum is another material that is essential for modernThese were the products that were in short supply or lackingwarfare.But here, too, cartel influence stood in the way ofaltogether when the United States entered the war: rubber,American development.Even though the United States was the aluminum, atabrine, and military lenses such as periscopes,greatest user of aluminum in the world, and in spite of the fact rangefinders, binoculars, and bombsights.These were handicapsthat, in a less productive and resourceful nation, could easilythat its industrial capacity was greater than any 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