Doing Big Business with Fascists
In later years, Thorkild Rieber, former chairman of the board of Texaco, chief supplier of oil to General Francisco Franco and Hitler, stated that these actions were not ideologically-motivated; but simply good business.
A close friend seconded this, saying that “[Rieber] always thought it was much better to deal with autocrats than democracies. He said with an autocrat you really only have to bribe him once. With democracies you have to keep doing it over and over.”