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Fate and temperament tangled Regler's life in the great philosophical confrontations of this century and their bloody outcome. Therefore, unlike the autobiographies of happier men, his depends on an understanding of the forces of which he made himself a servant. This understanding is often missing, or at best offers the cold comfort of wisdom after the event. As his first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment...
...Netherlands, which takes its welfare-state benefits seriously, a conscientious civil servant in the village of Diepenveen (pop. 4,018) decided to go out and inform a local farm hand named Hendrik Bally in person that the government, now that he had turned 65, would henceforth pay him a pension of 81 guilders ($21.31) a month...
...civil servant found a man dressed in unspeakable rags, and so thin that his ribs seemed about to burst out of his skin. His boss, Farmer Abraham Kolkman, 72, curtly explained that Bally was nearly deaf and blind, volunteered to sign the pension papers himself. Then suddenly Bally spoke up to contradict his master for the first time in 50 long years. "I can sign my name," he said. "It's my money." And that very night he ran away...
Paul Delouvrier, 45, was known until last week as a top civil servant and a skilled economist. After serving in the Resistance, he went on to high-echelon positions in the French Finance Ministry. Almost every U.S. loan to France from 1947 to 1953 (some $800 million) was in fact largely negotiated by Delouvrier. A devoted European, he won a reputation as a tough negotiator in the European Coal and Steel Community. In 1958 De Gaulle sent him on a fact-finding mission to Algeria. On his return to Paris, Delouvrier expressed concern over the way some officials and army...
...things to all men. Though a right-wing nationalist, he was also a friend of many left-wingers who later became the leaders of Japan's Socialist Party, and the friendships have endured. Graduating in the cherry blossom season of 1920, the newly married Kishi became a civil servant in the Ministry of Commerce and for the next 16 years was indistinguishable from thousands of other bureaucrats. Clutching his newspaper and a black umbrella, he commuted between his modest home in suburban Shinjuku and a governmental beehive in Tokyo's busy Kasumigaseki district. Though he looked and acted...