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Ruthless Efficiency. Oliver Lyttelton last week faced at least part of this issue. As he swept like a new broom into the Board of Trade, he declared: "If we had to live mainly on the indigenous resources of this country we should perhaps be able to support 15 million and not 45 million people. . . . Let us see that we get the labor and the materials. Let us see that they are used in a farsighted and ruthless way to bring our industries to the highest state of efficiency...
...Broom Into the top councils of the aged New Deal came young Ed Stettinius as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State, full of vigor and high resolution. The news of the new week was the speed, distinction and determination of his attack on the organization of the dusty old State Department...
...with the new broom, as the new Under Secretary, came able, greying Joseph Clark Grew, 64, for almost a decade Ambassador to Japan and expert on Far Eastern affairs. Out as Assistant Secretaries went the greying Boy Prodigy, Braintruster Adolph A. Berle Jr., G. Howland Shaw and Breckinridge Long. All resigned simultaneously, and Franklin Roosevelt accepted the resignations "with great regret...
More Purge. To sweep clean the ranks of his disaffected generals Adolf Hitler needed an iron broom. He found one in the persons of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Supreme High Command, and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a Prussian and a Junker. As head of a newly created Military Court of Honor, the two Field Marshals last week reported their first batch of Army sweepings: four of their fellow officers executed; four dead by suicide; two "deserted to the Bolsheviki"; twelve slated for "elimination" from the Army; many more about to be tried...
Correspondents were allowed to refer vaguely to "comparatively new guns" which sent their shells screeching through the sky like broom-riding witches. But no details of the weapons could be given. Only last week did British authorities take them off the secret list, disclosing that the guns actually were rocket projectors. Some of them had been used as far back as 1941, had brought down an enemy bomber with their second salvo...