James Stewart Martin (born December 10, 1911) was a

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attorney who served as the Chief of the Decartelization Branch for Military Government in

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after

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. His book ''All Honorable Men'' was published by

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in 1950. In it, Martin catalogs the difficulties faced by his team trying to deconstruct the Nazi industrial machine, not the least of which was opposition to his efforts by his superior officer, an investment banker in peacetime. In the book, Martin blamed Wall Street's pre-war ties to German Big Business for obstructionist efforts among the Allied powers to prevent the breakup of German industrial power. Martin was born December 10, 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Martin was Maryland state chairman of the Progressive Party.

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