Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flatly called harebrained. One National Socialist panacea followed another until it was recently rumored in Berlin that a Chinese economist named What Now was being brought in to clear up the Funk mess. Yet last week, Minister Funk was praised in no less a German economic journal than the semi-official Vierjahres-plan-for "an organization achievement of the greatest dimensions." The achievement: devising a General Economic Council which, in effect, kicked himself out as Germany's No. 1 Government economist, and put Field Marshal Hermann Göring in. Effusiveness of the praise which was given Herr Funk...
...morning last November President Getulio Vargas of Brazil sat down as usual to a dish of mamau (a Brazilian fruit that looks like cantaloupe), unfolded a newspaper with an expectant smile. It was the second anniversary of Brazil's Estado Novo-the semi-Fascist State that President Vargas created in 1937-and he looked forward to a paean of headlines in Brazil's press...
...Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee's semi-submerged hulk still smoked in the Plata estuary and her 1,039 officers & men were interned at Buenos Aires and Montevideo, four of them under arrest in the latter capital, pending an investigation to see if the Spee's scuttling was criminal...
...BRITAIN IS AT WAR - Harold Nicolson-Penguin (25?). Semi-propaganda for the literate: the British argument put with skill and fervor by a ringside spectator of British foreign policy since Versailles. The next Peace Conference will have a fighting chance of fairness, Nicolson thinks, only if a Final Treaty is negotiated between victor and vanquished at their leisure and at least a year after the Preliminary Treaty, or Diktat, is imposed. For implementing a future society of nations, he proposes (less convincingly) that all civil and military aircraft be operated by the "League...