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Instead of tendering it, Littell wrote a 15,000-word blast, exposing the intricate connections
between Sterling, Tommy Corcoran, and the enemy. Biddle insisted Roosevelt fire Littell.
Roosevelt hesitated. He dreaded personal confrontations of any kind. But Biddle finally won.
Roosevelt dismissed Littell for insubordination, saying, "When statements made by Norman
Littell [criticizing the government] first appeared in the papers I put it to him ... that I hoped for
his future career he would resign. ... Under the circumstances my only alternative is to remove
him from office which I have done today. "
In 1945, Littell at last found support in Congress. Representatives Al Smith of Wisconsin, and
Jerry Voorhis of California entered Littell's charges against Sterling in the Congressional
Record on January 22 of that year, demanding a full-scale investigation. The investigation
never took place. Within a few days of the resolution being entered, it was removed from the
agenda, and Biddle quietly resigned, ironically taking up the post of prosecutor at the
Nuremberg Trials immediately afterward.
Just before Roosevelt died, the ailing President asked to see Littell, who recalls that in a
charged meeting in the Oval Office he told the young man he would like to have seen Biddle
impeached for treason but the difficulties were too great in his grievous physical
condition. Littell asked Roosevelt why Biddle, of all people, was a judge at Nuremberg.
Roosevelt did not reply.
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* Blum, John Morton From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of War. 1941-1945: Boston:
Houghton Mifflin.
Chapter 9: The Car Connection
William Weiss's partner in General Aniline and Film, Edsel Ford, whose father, Henry Ford,
was chairman of the Ford empire, played a complex part in The Fraternity's activities before
and during World War II. The Ford chairman in Germany, in charge of all Ford operations after
Pearl Harbor, was Dr. Heinrich Albert, partner until 1936 of Gerhardt Westrick in the law firm
associated with the Dulles brothers -- Sullivan and Cromwell.
Henry Ford was once ranked in popular polls as the third greatest man in history: just below
Napoleon and Jesus Christ. His wealth may be gauged by the fact that when young Edsel
turned twenty-one, the father took the boy into a private vault and gave him $1 million in gold.
Henry Ford controlled more than half of the American automobile market by 1940: in the early
years of the century, his famous Model T, the chariot of the common man, revolutionized
the nation.
Lean and hard as a Grant Wood farmer, Henry Ford was a knotty puritan, dedicated to the
simple ideals of early-to-bed, early-to-rise, plain food, and no adultery. He didn't drink and
fought a lifetime against the demon tobacco.
He admired Hitler from the beginning, when the future Fuhrer was a struggling and obscure
fanatic. He shared with Hitler a fanatical hatred of Jews. He first announced his anti-Semitism
in 1919, in the New York World, when he expressed a pure fascist philosophy. He said,
"International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew:
German-Jews, French-Jews, English-Jews, American-Jews ... the Jew is a threat. "
In Germany, Hitler was uttering identical sentiments. In 1920, Ford arranged for his Dearborn
Independent, first published in 1918, to become a platform for his hatred of the Jews. Week
after week the newspaper set out to expose some horror of Jewish misbehavior. The first anti-
Semitic issue on May 22 carried the headline THE INTERNATIONAL JEW: THE WORLD'S
PROBLEM. The leading article opened with the words "There is a race, a part of humanity,
which has never been received as a welcome part ..." and continued in the same vein to the
end. A frequent contributor was a fanatical White Russian, Boris Brasol, who boasted in one
piece: "I have done the Jews more injury than would have been done to them by ten pogroms."
Brasol was successively an agent of the Czar and of the U.S. Army Intelligence; later he
became a Nazi spy.
Ford's book The International Jew was issued in 1927. A virulent anti-Semitic tract, it was still
being widely distributed in Latin America and the Arab countries as late as 1945. Hitler
admired the book and it influenced him deeply. Visitors to Hitler's headquarters at the Brown
House in Munich noticed a large photograph of Henry Ford hanging in his office. Stacked high
on the table outside were copies of Ford's book. As early as 1923, Hitler told an interviewer
from the Chicago Tribune, "I wish that I could send some of my shock troops to Chicago and
other big American cities to help." He was referring to stories that Ford was planning to run for
President.
Ford was one of the few people singled out for praise in Mein Kampf. At Hitler's trial in 1924,
Erhard Auer of the Bavarian Diet testified that Ford had given Hitler money. Ford formed
crucial links in The Fraternity at an early stage. He appointed Gerhardt Westrick's partner Dr.
Heinrich Albert as chairman of the Ford Company. Other prominent figures in that company
were fanatically pro-Nazi. They included a grandson of the Kaiser and Carl Bosch, Schmitz's
forerunner as head of I.G. Farben. Later, Carl Krauch of I.G. Farben became a director and
Kurt von Schroder, as one might have predicted, handled the banking.
Carl Krauch testified in an interrogation in 1946:
I myself knew Henry Ford and admired him. I went to see Goring personally
about that. I told Goring that I myself knew his son Edsel, too, and I told
Goring that if we took the Ford independence away from them in Germany,
it would aggrieve friendly relations with American industry in the future. I
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