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...Alfred Krupp Foundation has given Harvard $2 million to establish a permanent chair and a graduate fellowship program in European studies...
...Krupp Foundation owns all of the shares of the Krupp companies which manufactured "Big Bertha" and other weapons for Nazi Germany in World War II. The company now manufactures steel, trucks and other industrial products...
...merely a sign of goodwill and a gesture of friendship on the Germans' part. They [the Krupp Foundation] gave the money to Harvard because they felt that here is where they could get the highest return; where the most would be made of it," Goldman said...
Although $2-million gifts are not considered large in American foundation terms, Goldman said the sum represents nearly one third of Krupp's disbursements over a two-year period. The Krupp company has sales totaling about $3 billion annually and the foundation itself is second in size only to The Volkswagon Foundation in West Germany...
This country is unlikely to use the courts to bring the planners of the Indochina War to justice. Instead, Honeywell, the latter-day Krupp, is appearing on campus to recruit technicians and executives from the Harvard student body. Some say that this recruitment need not be protested, that nobody is forced to see the interviewer...