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Office. The Supervisory Office Chemistry was commissioned by Mr.
Schlotterer to submit to him as soon as possible a survey of the chemical
industry in the following countries: France, Switzerland, England, Holland,
Belgium, Denmark, Norway.
Special attention was to be paid to the
cartel relations, the degree to which German firms participate in them, and the
extent to which they have developed without German participation.
Mr.
Born asked for a condensed report on the three-party and four-party cartel and
its relations with other European dyestuff producers, to be sent to him for the
Sparte Dyestuffs.
If Farben had any special suggestions to make with
regard to the lines on which the manufacture of dyestuffs was to be organized
in future in the countries in question, it would be useful if they would bring
them forward on this occasion. (It was stated in confidence that Herr U.*
remarked during the conference with Herr B. [Born] that European dyestuffs
production after the war would probably be under the management of Farben).
At Mr. Born's request, Director von Heider [Farben official] for the
chemical sector, was notified to this effect. Following the discussion with Mr.
Born, Mr. Henco asked the undersigned to have a talk with him; and discussed in
particular detail relations with the Swiss dyestuffs industry. The undersigned
informed Mr. Henco of the present situation, namely, that Switzerland had
discontinued its sales to certain eastern and southeastern European countries
with which it had no clearing agreement, or with which the Swiss clearing
functioned badly; that it had, however, maintained its deliveries in full to
the important markets of France, England, and U.S.A. through local production
places and had been enabled by its large stocks of supplies to do business on
at least the same scale as hitherto in all other countries that is, where it
had not taken over part of our business in the countries with which Germany
ceased to deal on account of the war. In regard to our future policy towards IG
Basel, the undersigned stated that this would depend very largely on the
attitude to be adopted towards Switzerland by the Reich with regard to economic
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| [Signed] KUFUSS |
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* Claus Ungewitter.
business manager of the Economic Group Chemical Industry and Chief of the
Supervisory Office Chemistry.
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