IG Farben

[Terrance]

Richard Romeo wrote:
> surely, some of the speed with which to get the democracies in Germany and
> Japan revved up was due in part to the desperate situation the peoples of
> those countries were in, trying to survive day to day?
> 
> Rich


Surely, but the laxity with which the anti-cartel laws were
implemented, amended and or abandoned (Japan's citizens are
currently suffering the ills of cartel economics) worked
counter to this objective.