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 | | Harriman 'owned' the shares on paper only, remember he was a stockbroker -- the real owner of the shares, who bankrolled and funded UBC almost totally, were one or more unnamed members of the Rockefeller Family, probably John D. Rockefeller himself, the Standard Oil mogul and family patriarch, who died in 1937... |
 | | And the Harrimans were actually merely doing the bidding of the Rockefellers, their major clients, and probably investing money on their own on the side, in such deals as arms shipments, purchases of gold, etc. |
 | | John, the answer is that those who don’t understand are misleaded by the terms the "Alien Act" and "trading with the enemy." The law refers to enemy countries that had assets in the US, not to the individuals employed by the US subsidiaries, which you evidently agree with. |
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