I REPORTED to Major La Farge upon arrival. Since my visit to
Frankfurt with Lamont and Steve six weeks before, there had
been several changes in the MFA&A Section. With the re-
moval to Berlin of the Monuments officers attached to the U. S.
Group Control Council, our office at USFET Headquarters in
Frankfurt had been transferred to Höchst. The move was logical
enough because we were part of the Restitution Control Branch
of the Economics Division, which was located there. For all prac-
tical purposes, however, we would have been better off in Frank-
furt, since our work involved daily contacts with other divisions--
all located at the main headquarters.

The Höchst office was a barnlike room, some thirty feet square,
on the second floor of the Exposition Building. It required con-
siderable ingenuity to find the room, for it was tucked in behind a
row of laboratories occupied by white-coated German civilians, for-
mer employees of I. G. Farben, who were now working for the
American Military Government. At one end of the room were
desks for the Chief and Deputy Chief. The rest of the furniture
consisted of four long work tables and two small file cabinets. The
staff was equally meager--MajorLa Farge, Lieutenant Edith
Standen Corporal James Reeds and a German civilian stenogra-
pher.

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