"It would be comforting to believe that financial Establishment of the United States and the leaders of the American industry were united in a common purpose following the Day of Infamy, the Japannese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Certainly, the American public was assured that the Big Business along with all of the officials of the government ceased from the moment the war began to have any dealing whatsoever with the enemy. That assurance sustained the morale of millions of Americans who bore arms in World War II and their kinfolk who stayed at home and suffered the anguish of separation.

But the heartbreaking truth is that a number of financial and industrial figures of World War II and several members of the government served the cause of money before the cause of patriotism. While aiding the United States’ war effort, they also aided Nazi Germany’s…."

"….It began with the conveniently multinational Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland The activities of this anomalous institution in wartime are contained in Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau’s official diaries at the Roosevelt Momorial library at Hyde Park, New York. Other details are contained in ….."

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GENERAL LICENSE UNDER SECTION 3(a)

OF THE TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by sections 3 and 5 of The trading with the Enemy Act as amended, and by virtue of all other authority vested in me, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do prescribe the following:

A genral license is herby granted, licensing any tracsaction or act proscribed by section 3(a) of The Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, provided, however, that such transaction or act is authoized, by the Secreatary of the Tresury by means of regulations, rulings, instructions, licenses or otherwise, pursuant to the Executive Oder No. 8389, as amended.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 13, 1941

H. Morgenthau, Jr.

Secretary of the Treasury

Francis Biddle

Attorney General of the United States

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The book gives an extraordinary and staggering conclusive documentation of the names, the dates, the places, the actions. Nothing is left to uncertainty.