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1935 - 1937
1937-1938
1938 -1939
SPRING 1940
TODAY
Twilight of German Efficiency
German efficiency isn't fable, it's a fact. No
By WARREN IRVIN
for the Columbia Broadcasting System.
other people on earth is, An American journalist who spent several months in Berlin as an observer Goering if he didn't get the by nature, so patient, so painstaking and so dent upon the charity of his that developed the very quali The personal feud between man efficiency is no longer what
thorough as the Ger- man. These are quali- ties that make for ef-
friends,
NAZI.”
SHODDY
CREEPS IN German manufacturers, greedy for bigger profits, no longer had
and was personally acquainted with Marshal Goering. He ro- fused to take no for an answer, and threatened to appeal to shoes. He got them, all right; got them with apologies.
Yet, my conviction that Ger- ties I mentioned earlier in this Ribbentrop and Goebbels is it used to be is not based only article,
shared by their partisans in on examples such as these. I "NOT GERMAN-By teaching German youth to the respective ministries to noticed, when I was in Gor- think for itself, the old system such an extent that each scek many, that the "spoils system" encouraged scientific research, deliberately to thwart the had had its effect upon German We got to talking about mo- and nurtured patience, pain- plans of the other.
industry. ficiency; and they ex- dern German youth. He shook stakingness and thoroughness; German industrialists compet- his head. "They are not Ger- while the new system, which re- ing for Government contracts plain why Germany has man", he said. "They are Nazi, giments and standardises, seeks know that the "spoils system" They have been so steeped in to stamp out individuality, and is now in effect, and that their produced so many able Nazi doctrines that they are in- thus discourages these qualities. chances of obtaining such con- capable of thinking for them- That is why I say it is a mis- tracts depend largely upon the scientists
more, per- selves. They are more auto- take to suppose that modern nature of their political contact the same pride in the quality of
matons-robots if you like Germany possesses them in the that, and perhaps even upon haps, than any other without learning, without cul- same degree as Imperial or "gifts" suitably bestowed in the their products. It wasn't al- Ination.
ture; yes, even without intel- Republican Germany. That is right quarters. › Political "pull,"ways a scarcity of raw materials ligence. They know only how why I am convinced that Ger- in other words, is the deciding that made those products in- But it is a mistake to sup-
to march and to sing."
man efficiency no longer is factor in the award of contracts, ferior, as I learned to my sur- Then he asked: "What will be what it used to be. pose that the Germany of the future of Germany, with
rather than the quality, of the prise. To turn from science to an- products industrialists have to On one occasion, when re to-day, the Germany in such people in control? The other example, consider the Ger- offer.
turning from a visit to Sweden, which individuality has been training of our youth is in the man Civil Service. In Imperial Indeed, political pull" is I managed to bring in some crushed, freedom of thought bands of men who have neither Germany, the Civil Service was deep-rooted in the entire gov- coffee, and went out to buy an
acknowledged to be extremely ernmental system'; and suppressed and the will of scruples nor scholarship.
the electric percolator. I found one, "They are incapable of im- good, and served as a pattern ability of the German man, in which was somewhat expensive, each and every German parting to others what they for other countries who hoped the street to obtain a new over- but I bought it after being as- made subservient to the will don't possess themselves. They to achieve the same degree of coat or a new pair of shoes sured that it was of pro-wor of the State, possesses these turnout students in series efficiency in their own..
often depends upon the politi- quality. I took it back to my qualities in the same degree much the same as Henry Ford ROT IN THE
cians he knows.
hotel and tried to use it. But I remember the case of a man though I tried again and again, as Imperial or Republican turn out, automobiles.
one is exactly like the other.” CIVIL SERVICE. a workman employed at night ! couldn't make coffee that |Germany.
Whenever I hear people-talk-
in Berlin factory-who, after didn't-taste-of-the-metal,-and- ing of German efficiency, I am Hitler himself has told us reminded of that conversation: vice is honeycombed with graft, days in futile waiting at the was impossible to drink the To-day, the German Civil Ser- spending the better part of two the taste was so strong that it repeatedly that this is a 1 am reminded of it, because I favouritism, and red tape. It is office where certificates for the coffee. "new Germany", and here is am convinced that German ef- glutted with Nazi political ap- purchase of now shoes were is- On still another occasion I one instance in which he has ficiency has suffered much, and pointees; and rotten with petty sued, was advised that his old went into the store of a famous
is bound to suffer more, from jealousies and rivalries. spoken the truth.
shoes were good enough and German cutlery company and the effects of the present educa- I need only cite as an example could still be repaired. In other purchased a pair of nail scissors. The Germany of to-day is a tional system in Germany. Be- the rivalry between the Foreign words, he was told he couldn't The very first time I used them, new Germany; a Germany in cause German efficiency was a Office and the Propaganda have a new pair.
I felt something strike my face which the only science is mili- product of the old German Ministry, which has become a But it happened that he was tary science, and in which all educational system-n system standing joke in Berlin. research has been diverted to military ends.
German ingenuity has been, concentrated on the invention' of new and more powerful Jethal weapons; on tanks, guns, air- planes, bombs, shells and gases; and perhaps on other things that have not as yet been tried. But when I say "German in- genuity" I mean only the in- genuity of this new Germany, so different from the Germany of old.
THE SCIENTISTS
GO
Where are the old German scientists, the men whose stud!- ousness and unremitting toil made German products renown- ed throughout the world? Mäny of them are dead; many in con- centration camps; and others are, political, refugees.
A few months ago, in the lobby of the Adlon Hotel in Ber- lin, I met a German of the old- school, a man who had been a prominent professor in one of the leading German universities before Hitler came to power. Because this man had, no sym- pathy with the aims and aspira tions of National Socialism; because he didn't think as the Nazis did; they ousted, him. He can no longer teach in Germany. He would like to emigrate, but can't. His, savings are his only means of subsistence, and they are "dwindling: rapidly. When' they are gone, he will be dopen- Pu
They
Each
a few inches under the right
a member of the Nazi Party ove I reached up, and to my great surprise, extracted the point of one of the scissor blades.
are not all cranks
"Worthy of honourable mention”-something suspended
THE
in air,
anything Wells ever wrote, Bombs that burrow and torpedoes that chase their victims, manoeuvre, how they will,
Perhaps not so crazy is a sug- gestion that bombs should be dropped on Germany which come down with peals of fiendish
laughter.
The crank's loftiest peak seema to be reached by a genuine, sugges tion that the clouds should frozen and A.A. guna mounted on them.
THE crank's opportunity is the divulge information useful to the iden
Inventions Committen set up enemy,
Something the Ministry of Supply. To
suspended
be
Many people are convinced that they have discovered Hitler's secret weapon. There are those who fear we are menaced by on etor- mots tank armed; with 18-inch, guns,' gargantuan flame-throwers, and manned by a thousand men, Others know with certainty That- entire towns will be demolished by a single monster projectile, no
must be
turned down for its apparent craziness. In the
wildest this body can be submitted, any: the-air is a favourite field suggestion may lurk the germ of
something idea, good, bad, or just fantastic, for the homespun gallus, Foor cat
good. Every Idea is that in the view of Its inventor: relations of the balloon barrage it is sometimes written in pencil carefully examined-oven though would help to win the war.
are, legion. A steel net aver on both sides of odd scraps of This opening is not neglected. London to catch bombs; a vast
paper. tarpaulin supported by balloons Suggestions pour in at the to blot out the moon and so on. We have learned a lesson from,
all: ***But not
entrios sent are The sky's the limits
the last war. After it was over, crazy. Some are
technical highly
Worthy of honourable mention there was dug out from a War. schemes worked out in advanced la a suggestion that cover any Office pigeon-hole a Nottingham- mathematics. These usually come vulnerable area should be hung ashire plumber's design for a tank. from.co from competent scientists, huge painted, panorama on which it had been submitted to 1911.
large class of entry, is the the landscape below, should," be
ment,The man's mad.
have already been many umes ducing the bomber Also pigeon-holed in 1912 was a not bad but not new ideas that Imitated but rearranged; thurine On It was written the official com
suggested, investigated, and in bomba on the wrong place, the
| Doma ""Cases & adopted. Often the|| Projectiles, too have 'kender cannot be Informed of prophets... From these comes "an this, na to do so would be to abstract armoury, as startling as
design for in lank by Mr.SLJEN
de zole which was superior to the one used in 1916.|.
There can be no doubt that, in at least two respects, Ger- man efficiency is of a high dè- gree. I refer to the Army and the German espionage organisa- tion. But, in both instances, it is the efficiency of the Old School.
Elsewhere, both materially and morally, German efficiency is on the decline. And that decline is certain to make it- self Felt as the present war progressed.
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