Since war's end, many an impatient squawk has been sounded against the U.S. Military Government for failing to do "something" about Germany's cartels though hardly anybody knew what the something should be. Last winter, a civilian committee headed by Federal Trade Commissioner Garland Ferguson trotted off to see if the squawking was justified. The group reported that it was.
Decartelizationdissolution of agreements to control prices, markets, etc.was not going along satisfactorily. Furthermore, deconcentrationthe actual sale of assets held or controlled by the cartelshad got nowhere, partly because of Allied political differences....
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