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...Unified Science; of the second, Foundations of the Theory of Signs. The two are forerunners of 18 more to be published by August 1939. The first 20 pamphlets, comprising two "volumes," are to be the starting point for other volumes. Editor-in-chief of the project is Otto Neurath...
Hulking, booming Otto Neurath, who gives the impression of oozing vitality from every pore, is a social scientist of international distinction. Son of the late Economist Wilhelm Neurath, he was born about 50 years ago in Vienna, became a professor of economics at Vienna's commercial Hochschule. In that city he founded and directed for nine years a museum of social and economic sciences. Of strong socialist leanings in politics, he now lives in The Hague, is writing a book to be called The Life of Modern Man. Some years ago. Dr. Neurath devised a method of conveying social...
...Vienna, Otto Neurath headed a group of thinkers known as the "Viennese Circle," who decided that Science with a capital S should have a unified language and should be in fact a unified human endeavor. Out of this grew a series of yearly congresses on unified science, held in Prague, Paris, Copenhagen, Cambridge, and attended by scholars from many lands. Dr. Neurath's plan of an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science moved toward fruition. This large project was not intended to impose an arbitrary super-system on all the branches of learning, or to suppress honest controversy over...
...Nazi throw. The Fuhrer announced not only that he accepted the resignations of Field Marshal von Blomberg and General von Fritsch but also that he assumed control of the War Ministry himself and further-to make his defiant mood unmistakable-accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath, appointing to replace him Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the chief Nazi architect of the anti-Communist pact of Germany, Japan and Italy (TIME...
Secret Council. Nothing Adolf Hitler does is ever entirely simple, and last week he complicated his solution of the crisis by creating openly what he called a secret Cabinet Council "for the purpose of advising the Führer in the conduct of foreign policy." Old Baron von Neurath, who had just been kicked out as Foreign Minister, was made the so-called "president" of this council, but into it went also new Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Göring, Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, Naval Chief of Staff Admiral-General Erich Raeder and Major General Wilhelm Keitel...