Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Complete depression of the militarist class in Germany after the war" was called for yesterday by Dr. Herman Finer, currently Visiting Lecturer in Government here, since September 1942 Special Consultant on Post-War Reconstruction to the International Labor Office of the League of Nations at Montreal, and 23 years Reader in Public Administration at the University of London...
...Finer, who is offering during his three term stay here Government 10b, British Government, 15, International Organization, and 8a, Comparative Government, has conducted studies recently for several European governments on the practical possibilities of labor power as reparation after the war, and states that Russia particularly in her demand for manpower will find Germany a vast reservoir...
...Finer, a dynamic little man with flashing brown eyes behind scholarly horn-rimmed glasses, in a recent book, "TVA: Lessons for International Application," set forth his international reconstruction ideas, the substance of which was incorporated almost directly into the charter of the World Development Bank at the Breton Woods Conference...
...Finer asserts that the solution to successful rehabilitation will be in the establishment of an international borrowing source to which the Balkans, China, India, and the Middle East may come for long-term loans. "The World Development Bank supplies just that need," he says, "and it also eliminates the danger of one nation doing the developing and lending individually, a condition which leads to the borrowing country's obligation to buy from the lending and amounts to imperialism...
...make his point, Finer gives a complete picture of the planning, financing, building and administration of TVA, plus its dividends to the Tennessee Valley people in a higher standard of living. The cost would be an obstacle to poor nations (ten-year TVA cost: $700 million), but Finer suggests that an international agency could finance sound, carefully planned projects. Then dams along the Yangtze would one day mean electricity for the lamps of China...