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ombers who were destroying London. The money was<br />

placed in Farben bank accounts until after <strong>the</strong> war.<br />

I.G. Farben was organized by <strong>the</strong> Warburgs in 1925 as a<br />

merger between six giant German chemical <strong>com</strong>panies:<br />

Badische Anilin, Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst, Welierter-Meer,<br />

and Griesheim-Elektron. Max Warburg was director <strong>of</strong><br />

I.G. Farben, Germany, and I.G. Chemie, Switzerland.<br />

American I.G. Farben was controlled by his bro<strong>the</strong>r, Paul<br />

[Warburg], architect <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Federal Reserve System,<br />

Walter Teagle <strong>of</strong> Standard Oil, and Charles Mitchell <strong>of</strong><br />

National City Bank. Just before World War II broke out,<br />

Ethyl-Standard shipped 500 tons <strong>of</strong> ethyl lead to <strong>the</strong><br />

Reich Air Ministry through I.G. Farben, with payment<br />

secured by letter <strong>of</strong> [credit from] Brown Bros. Harriman<br />

dated Sept. 21, 1938.<br />

Throughout World War II, <strong>the</strong> Paris branches <strong>of</strong> J.P.<br />

Morgan and Chase National Bank continued to do<br />

business as usual. At <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> war, occupation<br />

authorities repeatedly issued orders to dismantle I.G.<br />

Farben plants, but were countermanded by Gen. William<br />

Draper <strong>of</strong> Dillon Read, which had financed German<br />

rearmament in <strong>the</strong> 1920s.<br />

Winston Churchill remarked <strong>of</strong> this "managed conflict" in<br />

1945, just before it ended, "There never was a war more<br />

easy to stop." (quoted in <strong>the</strong> Washington Post June 11,<br />

1984). The only real difficulty had been encountered in<br />

getting it started. Churchill succeeded in prolonging <strong>the</strong><br />

war for at least a year by defeating Gen. Wedemeyer's

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