Word: feudality
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...More Nonsense. There is no feudal nostalgia about Pierre Laval's totalitarianism. It is of the most streamlined Nazi type - profoundly opportunistic and no nonsense about it. Whereas Laval may, and probably will, provoke twice as much resistance as Marshal Petain did, Laval will have the stomach to meet resistance with the firing squad, the guillotine or any weapon handy. Around him he has gathered a Cabinet of obedient bureaucrats...
...about as free as a traffic jam. State regulations (chiefly on vehicle weight and length) stop them in every direction. Pennsylvania, sprawled athwart main east-west as well as north-south routes, limits vehicles' weights to 19½ tons (way under that of bordering States). Kentucky, like a feudal baron astride the routes from the Midwest to the South, limits weights to 14 tons (liberalized last year from 9 tons), and exacts toll from highway commerce. Other blockades: Kansas (where trucks have to line up for hours to pass through ports of entry), South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, South...
...Robinson's job was strictly a post-Pearl Harbor development. For 80-odd years the Navy's tiers of bureaus-Bureau of Ordnance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, etc.-had functioned like little feudal states. Bureau chiefs were jealous, prerogative-minded, ensnarled in procedure. Many a Secretary of the Navy talked wistfully about simplifying the Navy, but nothing was done until Pearl Harbor rocked Frank Knox. The two-ocean Navy, due for completion in 1944, was needed in 1942. Panting for construction speed, Knox created a new Office of Procurement and Material...
...Pres, St. Gervais, Le Marais, the Palais Royal and the Halles (central markets). Except St. Germain, all these quarters belong to the old inner Paris, walled and fortified at the end of the 12th Century by Philippe Auguste, the powerful king who conquered Normandy and pushed his authority past feudal nobles to all the frontiers of his realm. The first church of St. Germain was built in the meadows by Childebert I in the 6th Century, when Paris was a Roman island in the river. In the Palais Royal the great Cardinal Richelieu died and Louis XIV shone like...
Shall such unity be brought about by a new feudal order with '"Jewish scapegoats, Slavic pariahs and Negro 'subhumans' . . . at the bottom" and "a militant caste of Samurai and Teutonic Knights ... at the top for all to obey?" Or (a doctrinaire never offers more than two choices) shall "America and the British democracies adopt a common currency and a common citizenship; create a common army, navy and air force under common command; and establish a provisional federal government with limited but adequate powers to provide for the common defense and the general welfare...