Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Luxembourg Unvarnished. Into tiny Luxembourg, whose Bourbon ruler Grand Duchess Charlotte was a refugee in Lisbon, goose-stepped squads of strapping, green-uniformed German police armed with heavy pistols and long daggers. On Place Guillaume (now Wilhelm-Platz) they lined up for instructions from Hitler's new Civil Commissioner, Gustav Simon, a two-fisted Nazi pressure-man who won his spurs fighting the League of Nations in the Saar and became Gauleiter of the Coblenz-Trier district...
...efficiency of Georges Mandel, before the fall of France Minister of Colonies under Daladier (and later of Interior), was often characterized as "deadly." Last week, ironically, this deadliness seemed to be catching up with both his person and his work. He was the first on the list of civil trials (see p. 27). And one of France's colonies on which he lavished his efforts was apparently doomed...
...brother's wife, brother's son's wife, sister's son's wife, wife's brother's daughter, wife's sister's daughter. If the report is accepted, the Church of England will once more be in line with civil law. The commission still urged "grave biological and some other objections to marriage between first cousins." quoted famed Biometrist J. B. S. Haldane, who testified that if first-cousin marriages were prohibited, England would have fewer mental defectives, deaf-mutes, still-born children...
...hope for a concordat with Germany as favorable as that which went into effect Aug. i between the Vatican and Portugal (a dictatorship friendly to Britain). The Portuguese Government gave back to the Church nearly all the religious property it took over when Church & State were separated, gave civil value to Catholic marriages, promised to let the Church maintain its own schools...
...years Financier Emanuel has talked about a rationalization of his scrambled A. V. C. O.-A. T. C. O. system. It would please the Civil Aeronautics Board. The Vultee-Stinson merger looked like a step in that direction. But the aircraft industry thinks there was little if any A. V. C. O., A. T. C. O. or A. M. C. O. pressure, called it a manufacturer's deal. Victor Emanuel tacitly bore them out. When the merger was announced he was in Washington arguing before SEC over something else-the snarled Standard Gas & Electric utility system, also Emanuel-controlled...