James Stewart Martin

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James Stewart Martin


Born
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States
December 10, 1911

Died
January 30, 1987

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James Stewart Martin (December 10, 1911 – January 30, 1987) was a United States Department of Justice attorney who served as the Chief of the Decartelization Branch for Military Government in Germany after World War II.

Martin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 10, 1911.

His book All Honorable Men was published by Little Brown in 1950. In it, Martin catalogs the difficulties faced by his team trying to deconstruct the Nazi industrial machine, not the least of which was opposition to his efforts by his superior officer, an investment banker in peacetime. In the book, Martin blamed Wall Street's pre-war ties to German Big Business for obstructionist efforts among the Allied powers to prevent the breakup of German industrial po
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“Since our government shows signs of behaving like a big corporation some people have suggested that the responsibility of the government to the citizens of the nation should be the same as that of a corporation’s officers to the stockholders.”
James Stewart Martin, All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System

“experience has shown that corporate managements are under very little control from their stockholders and do pretty much as they see fit.”
James Stewart Martin, All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System

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