Word: officialdom
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...mountains and the icier indifference of officialdom have for 13 years raised impassable barriers against a military highway from the U.S. to Alaska. Last week came a sudden thaw. From Ottawa (not Washington) the word went out that Alaska may get its highway at last...
...ordering" than it is to "new order." At any one place the Neue Ordnung is simply a series of orders, adapted to local and day-to-day expedients, often countermanded by higher authority. There is no law, no system of penalties and rewards. And, everywhere in Occupied Europe, Nazi officialdom is honeycombed with corruption-which seeps into the petty officialdom of the occupied countries. In Paris anything from a pound of butter to an exit permit can be had for a price. (Price of an exit permit to Unoccupied France: 1,500 francs...
...Premier arrived in London last fall, he had one thought in mind: to pry a promise of dominion status for Burma out of the British Government. But he got small change out of Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for India & for Burma Leopold Amery, and the rest of British officialdom. Churchill, said U Saw, was "very blunt," adding that he himself had been very blunt in return. As the ultra-nationalist Premier left Britain for Burma, via the U.S., he remarked Delphically that the Japanese were very clever people and that "we would rather trust the devil we know than...
Jittery France put both Feuchtwanger and Koestler in internment camps. The difference of their treatment is epitomized in the two books' titles. Feuchtwanger's "devil in France" was the crass indifference, apathy, venality, incompetence of French officialdom. His camp guards were friendly, often respectful-and always bored. The bulk of his fellow internees were "nonpolitical" or nearly so: Jewish scholars, doctors, lawyers, artisans, tradesmen; Saarlanders who had sided with France in the days of the plebiscite, fleeing into France when they lost; ex-members of the Foreign Legion, a few of whom had lost...
...dread term Munich men returned to British tongues again. Many critics attributed the Government's failure to open a second front to high officialdom. The critics suspected anxiety to restore the old order and a fear of Russian victory...