Word: mewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country can be crushed by the "white war" of economic blockade, it should be Japan. The general staff of such a war is Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW). Mindful of how Britons had lulled themselves through eight months of World War II with faith in the power of blockade, last week MEW set out to disillusion them about their newest adversary. Their opinion: war with Japan would be a long, slow process...
Elaborating for the Ministry, gloomy, balding MEW Chief Dr. Hugh Dalton declared that Japan probably has resources of food for three years, of oil for at least 14 months, of rubber for a long, long time...
Small Shads, called mew yaps, must shag for their elders, rise at 4 a.m. to close the windows in winter, when temperatures of 30° below are no rarity. Divided into Gophers and Badgers for intra mural sports, Shattuck boys excel at most, helped introduce football to the Midwest. When Shads rebel at fish twice a week and ice cream only once, they stiffly march down the hill against orders, march back up again. Some loyal Old Shads: Diplomat Robert Woods Bliss, President George M. Moffett of Corn Products Refining Co., President Henry A. Scandrett of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul...
Cable address of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare is WHISKERS, LONDON. Britons call the Ministry "MEW." This light-hearted self-mockery is unwarranted. For the Ministry, housed in the gloomy, awesome London School of Economics, is one of the soberest, most intricate, least whiskery bureaus in the Government. It may be the decisive factor if Britain...
...MEW'S work is negative. Instead of building up Britain's economic strength, its entire effort is to break Germany's by cutting off German trade. Two principal means to this end are: 1) naval blockade; 2) underselling and overbidding Germany in markets which the blockade cannot cut off (The Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia, the Balkans...