Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S anonymous editors certainly rise above plain journalistic style every so often. Your small classic, "Background for War" deserves to be studied by every class in English. It is written in that best and most difficult to achieve of all English language writing - clearly and simply and apparently without effort...
...give up revisionism as the price of a French loan. Since then he has played a background role in opposition politics, occasionally coming out of his shell to issue warnings against getting too cozy with the Nazis or to growl about the decadence of his own aristocratic class. Hopeless and outmoded as most of the surviving diplomatic bigwigs of the '205, the crusty Count is convinced that his country is going to pot: "It is much to be feared that Bolshevistic ideology will again strike root in the nation. ... At present I feel that any part I might play...
...quarreling over the concepts of State Socialism and State Capitalism, and wondering which was which. Meanwhile the Kaiser and court were fearful that the Socialists in the Reichstag (the Social Democratic Party had 112 seats out of 397 in 1912) might forget their "revisionist" doctrines and adopt the naked class war propounded by Karl Marx. Lacking internal flexibility and with the shaky Austro-Hungarian Empire messing up the possibilities of progress to the east, the German economic system had seemingly reached its limits of growth as far back as 1914, Germany's "assisted capitalism" had run head-on into...
Enter Nazis. Unable to compete abroad, the German business class cried weakly for a directing savior. In their happiest times they had always had one. The immediately pre-Hitler years were the years of the phenomenon of "tired capitalism"; the German cartelized business structure, which was inextricably merged with five big banks, did not know the rules of intramural competition. Then came the first Nazi experiments with a rigidly controlled system, with businessmen retained as managers in their own plants, but with the Government allocating raw materials, dictating wages and prices and limiting and forcing new investment in accordance with...
Balloting for the Council will be held Thursday and Friday, May 25 and 26, when the Juniors will choose six of their classmates; and the Sophomores three from their class. The men who are elected will meet Monday, May 29, to choose eight additional undergraduates for the Council...