At least nine huge U.S. corporations are foreign-controlled: Royal Dutch/Shell Group controls 69% of Shell Oil. Netherlands-British Unilever and dutch AKU controls American Enka.

AMERICAN investment in foreign countries is often an irritation to foreigners, who worry about alien economic dominance. What is far less visible and less controversial is the great foreign stake in the U.S. Few Americans realize that when they launder clothes with Lever Brothers’ Lux, drink Lipton’s Tea, open a…