Well could Mr. Baruch say—“I had more power than any man in the war.” He could even have said: “We Jews had more power than you Americans did in the war”—and it would have been true.
- Authority over all materials. This, of course, included everything. Mr. Baruch was an expert in many of the lines of material involved, and had held interests in many of them. What the investigators endeavored to learn was in how many lines he was interested during the war.
In lines where Mr. Baruch was not expert he, of course, had experts in charge. There was Mr. Julius Rosenwald, another Jew’, who was in charge of “suplies (including clothing)’’ and who had a Mr. Eisenman to represent him. Mr. Eisenman was on the stand for a considerable period with regard to uni¬ forms, the change made in their quality, the price paid to the manufacturers (mostly Jewish) and other interesting questions.
The great Guggenheim copper interests, who sold most of the copper used during the war, were repre¬ sented by a former employe; but undoubtedly Mr. Baruch himself, who was much interested in copper during his business career, was the principal expert in that line.
It is impossible to escape the names of Jews all down the line in these most important departments. But, for the present, attention is called to the scope of Mr. Baruch’s control in the country at large. It is best stated in his own words:
“No building costing more than $2,500 could be erected in the United States without the approval of the War Industries Board. Nobody could