SAT写作经典例子之亨利·福特_SAT写作

SAT写作经典例子之亨利·福特

　　The coming of World War II and Fords mental collapse

　　Ford had opposed Americas entry into World War II and continued to believe that international business could generate the prosperity that would head off wars. Ford insisted that war was the product of greedy financiers who sought profit in human destruction; in 1939 he went so far as to claim that the torpedoing of U.S. merchant ships by German submarines was the result of conspiratorial activities undertaken by financier war-makers. The financiers to whom he was referring was Fords code for Jews; he had also accused Jews of fomenting the First World War . In the run-up to World War II and when the war erupted in 1939, he reported that he did not want to trade with belligerents.

　　At that time, which was before the U.S. entered the War and still had full diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany, Ford-Werke was under the control of the Ford Motor Company. The number of slave laborers grew as the war expanded although Wallace made it clear that companies in Germany were not required by the Nazi authorities to use slave laborers.

　　When Rolls-Royce sought a U.S. manufacturer as an alternative source for the Merlin engine , Ford first agreed to do so and then reneged. He lined up behind the war effort when the U.S. entered in late 1941. His support of the American war effort, however, was problematic. Once the U.S. entered the war, Fords Willow Run plant was converted into a B-24 factory. Production, however, was marred by incompetence and bungling.