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EARLY in July last, President Harding instructed the Alien Property Custodian of the United States to demand the return of all patents, trade marks, etc., which had been sold to the Chemical Foundation, on the ground that “the sale was made at so nearly a nominal sum that there is reason to believe that this government has not faithfully observed the trust which was implied in the seizure of this property.” The birth of the Foundation was the subj ect of much abuse in Germany, and now a resolution of the third German-American National Conference, with Mr. G. S. Viereck as chairman of the resolutions committee, declares that “we greet with satisfaction the first steps of the administration to correct the iniquities committed by the custodian of alien enemy property.” Meanwhile, the consternation produced among chemists of the United States by the President's action will he readily understood.
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The United States Chemical Foundation. Nature 110, 334 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110334a0
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