Word: interior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Himmler." Other Germans were important to the Russian plans. One was Kurt Fischer, appointed head of the department of the interior of the central administrative agency of the Soviet zone last July. In his 503, Fischer seems to most Germans to have the appearance of a typical Biedermann (Babbitt): neatly dressed, round-faced, with greying, slightly wavy hair. But Fischer was a veteran of the Communist Spartacist League, which ruled Berlin for ten days...
...clever pretext for war. Last September, U.N.'s Count Bernadotte made a ruling on the hotly contested supply routes in the northern tip of the Negeb desert. The Egyptian army, he said, could use the roads for six hours each afternoon to supply their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling, it became a dead letter. Since then, the Jews have...
...World War II (TIME, June 28). The government then rescinded Field Marshal Smuts's order forbidding members of two antiSemitic, ultranationalist organizations-Ossewa Brandwag and the Afrikaner Broederbond-to hold civil service positions. The Broederbond, of which Prime Minister Malan is a member and his Minister of the Interior, Dr. Theophilus Dönges, vice chairman, is now the real ruler of the Union of South Africa. The sinister secret society controls a good two-thirds of the government members of Parliament...
Acting Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson agreed that allocations had just about been done to death-but by a different hand. He had asked the Department of Commerce's Steel Products Advisory Committee (composed of 27 of the industry's top executives) for enough steel to permit all oil line-pipe mills and mine machinery makers to operate at capacity. The committee had turned him down. Last week Davidson accused the committee of "supplying steel for nonessential and even frivolous purposes ... I can draw no conclusion . . . other than that the steel industry has decided to jettison...
...price of going back into the government, Thorez demanded one of the two ministries which would give him an advantage if civil war came-the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of the Interior. Said he: "We'll take no strapontins" (collapsible aisle seats given to standees in French theaters). When told by Herriot that he could have neither ministry, Thorez said: "Talk to me again in three weeks. On verra bien...