Word: bureaucratism
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Ernst Wollweber is a master craftsman. His trade is trouble. A short, pudgy Communist of 52, with a fat, pockmarked face that has rarely been photographed, he sits at a bureaucrat's desk in the former Luftwaffe headquarters in Berlin. Ostensibly, he busies himself with the mundane details of shipping to & from Communist Germany. Actually, Ernst Wollweber is boss of an enterprise called the Wollweber Apparatus, which channels illegal trade in strategic supplies to the Communists...
Unfortunately, most of the specific recommendations were buried in generalities and bureaucrat's jargon, and some were the products of political quackery. For some of the country's most vexatious twinges, the report had no specific remedy. What to do about the threat of galloping inflation? Said the doctor vaguely: "We must use direct controls, as well as the tax and credit measures...
...rolling mill-a job best done by trained laborers with bulldozers and steamshovels. But bulldozers and cement mixers stand idle because no one apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just when we get a good gang of men working," said a U.S. engineer at Zenica, "some joker decides to send them to another...
Defense Secretary George C. Marshall was ready to give Fritchey the power to channel all information about the services through his office. But the three services were bound to fight any such centralization. Sighed one bureaucrat about his new boss: "Fritchey has about as much security as a Kamikaze...
Libel in France. When Victor Kravchenko published the bestselling story of his career as a onetime Soviet bureaucrat, I Chose Freedom, a French Communist weekly called him a "liar" and a U.S. secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently...