Pressure to return German assets splits war reparations plan
Washington notes mounting push from Congress Britain and German lobby to repatriate assets, threatening the Inter Allied Reparations Agency framework. Dirksen subcommittee cites the White case while warning that returning patents and trademarks to firms like I G Farben could reshape postwar industrial power and strain democratic pressures in Germany.
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West Germany
United States Congress
Germany
America
Inter- Allied Reparations Agency
War Claims Commission
Norway
Dirksen
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Herbert Brownell
Seph R. McCarthy
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G.i.s
Congress
I. G. Farbenindustrie
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Farben
Cassella Farbwerke
General Aniline and Dye Corporation
Board of Patents and Trademarks
John Foster Dulles
American policy makers risk backfiring on Germany
The August 12 1954 national report notes that U.S. efforts to placate Germany may provoke an unintended reaction, with policymakers eager to ease tensions possibly fueling resistance or backlash instead.
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