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...food distribution is an economic and moral problem. Hitler uses food as a political weapon. Last week, in Foreign Affairs, Economist Karl Brandt listed some of the ingenious and devastating uses to which this weapon has been put by Nazi experts in the last seven years...
...process, patriotic resistance is undermined; the neutral Government that makes the deal is compelled to pay its farmers in its own currency while waiting payment from Germany. A sudden ending of the demand brings a price slump, followed by farmers' defaulting on taxes and mortgage payments. Says Economist Brandt: "If this German technique were ever tried against the Latin-American countries, it would work magnificently. . . . Hitler . . . could throw every one of those countries into political convulsions and stir up violent hatred against the United States...
...Conquered. Economist Brandt believes that Germans use food to control civilians in German-occupied Europe as they do at home, but that the weapon does not work so efficiently because the machinery is new. To lure skilled workmen to German factories, rations in Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavian, French manufacturing centres are cut, increased in German towns. The amount of food that reaches the public is determined, not by the supply, but according to Nazi strategy. The British blockade, he believes, can not halt the Nazi war machine. He concludes that food will not win the war. "The Nazi machine will...
...Philadelphia Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Come on back, Katie, all is forgiven. This absolution was spoken last fortnight by one Harry Brandt, an independent Manhattan cinema theatre owner who two years ago gave Hollywood the jitters by proscribing Actress Katharine Hepburn and ten other cinemarvels as box-office poison. Mr. Brandt's reprieve came after watching the longest line in the eight-year history of the Radio City Music Hall queued up during a spell of foul weather to pay top prices for a view of Miss Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. When, after its first four days...
Last fortnight the University of Oklahoma Regents elected this prodigious character as the university's president. First Oklahoma alumnus to hold the office (salary: $10,000), 41 -year-old Joseph Brandt, a Lutheran, will succeed BaptistBible-collecting William Bennett Bizzell next August. Oklahoma's Sooners (named for the settlers who rushed into the Territory sooner than the zero hour in 1889) are tough. Few years ago six Sooner athletes caused a scandal by flogging a campus newspaper correspondent whose dispatches they did not like. Last week the consensus was that Sooners would think twice before trying such tricks...