Could this Nazi have prevented the Vietnam War?

[jmowreader]

One of the less-discussed reasons for going to war in Vietnam was Michelin.

Michelin, the French rubber company, grew its latex in the vicinity of Tri Tam, Vietnam. That the Vietnamese recognized this was a corporate war was evident; the NVA's biggest tank holding area was in tunnels under the rubber plantation.



This is Otto Bayer. He ran the IG Farben research laboratory at Leverkusen, Germany.

In 1937, Bayer created the first polyurethane, which IG Farben used to make excellent bristles for brushes. Polyurethanes are today used for just about everything natural rubber was, from seat cushions to condoms and including some tires.

After World War II, the United States cleaned out the Nazis' rocket program and shipped all of the scientists back to the US. We left Otto Bayer in Germany.

If, on the other hand, we would have taken Bayer and his polyurethane team back to the US, and furnished them with funding even one-tenth of that Von Braun's people received, could we have eliminated the need for gum rubber before the Vietnam War broke out?

[loudsue]

1. That's really interesting!

Where do you guys find all this stuff???

DU has the greatest researchers of all time!!

:kick::kick:

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I'll go back further to 1918. Woodrow Wilson could have prevented Vietnam

During the Versailles Treaty talks in Paris after World War I, a young lawyer from Vietnam asked for an audience with Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was entertaining small Baltic countries, asking for independence from empires, and the lawyer wanted American help to liberate Vietnam from the French. The lawyer's request was declined. It was Ho Chi Mingh.