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...Order. Actually the "New Order" is not a plan but a chaotic attempt to rule 150,000,000 people by terror, hunger and propaganda. German propaganda promises a unified Europe; there is nothing Germany wants less. She treats every captive nation differently: Danes the best, Poles the worst, Polish Jews worst of all. This prevents the captives from having any common ground to stand on. Germany is at the center of the web, but there are few cross-threads from nation to nation...
...crushes them in a mad whirl of meaningless activity, devoid of all values, empty of all reality. A climax is reached in the mad piano-playing of young Nicky in the second act, louder and louder as his sensitive mind is driven close to insanity by the chaotic scene that surrounds him; his solution in the third act seems weak and superficial by comparison...
What was to be done? There was only one way out, said the President-set a ceiling on prices. Said he: "In this way alone can the nation be protected from the evil consequences of a chaotic struggle for gains which must prove either illusory or unjust, and which must lead to the disaster of unchecked inflation...
...conditions barring the "evils of the past." Last week Commissioner Akers cagily found certain of these "evils of the past" were nonexistent, although he did not settle the spoils charges. He indicated that High-Hat Walter Brown's seeming collusion-&-conspiracy policy was an effort to reorganize a chaotic industry. He left the way clearly open for the old companies, since reorganized under new names, to claim damages amounting to about $2,500,000. He said that the Government had no case...
Such was the background of Dr. Schairer's conference in Ann Arbor last week. Basic assumption in his group's discussions: at war's end Hitlerism will be defeated and Europe will be chaotic. Not ready to plump for the Danish scheme, the brain trust nevertheless favored a decentralized economic system, held that electrification would make it possible to disperse industry. At week's end, they announced their plan...