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...Missouri's rabble-rousing Dewey Short who created the biggest commotion. Republican Short, who as late as Nov. 25 had hailed the Truman foreign-aid program as "a glorious opportunity," suddenly reverted to his old America-Firstism. One day he rose up cherry-red with anger and cried: "There are times when one must be cruel to be kind. . . . The more you give people, the more they will curse you for not giving them more. Instead of bleeding ourselves white, we had better keep ourselves strong...
...more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles-no automobiles...
...Anger & Ambition. Three generations later, in 1923, the relationship between Kalyanu's grandson, Jodh Singh, and the new deputy commissioner, Hugh Upton, was more complicated. The district of Garhwal remained the same: the peasants tilled their terraced fields of millet on the mountainsides, drove their sheep and goats to the high, flowering pastures in the spring, sent their women out to gather sticks for the winter fires in the smoky stone huts. Jodh Singh, however, enjoyed the privileges won by his grandfather; he had been to Lucknow University, and he felt it his mission in life to fight...
Caves & Camels? At Lake Success, meanwhile, U.N.'s Palestine Committee threshed through preliminary speeches. Then, as the week ended, U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson read to fellow delegates the statement all parties had been waiting for. It brought instant reassurance to Zionists, anger to Arabs. Said Johnson: "The U.S. delegation supports . . . the majority plan [of the U.N. Palestine Commission] which provides for partition and immigration." Johnson cocked a mild eyebrow at Arab threats of force. He blandly added: "We assume there will be Charter observance...
Unhappy Children. Like most psychiatrists, Dr. Dunbar looks for the roots of psychosomatic illness in an unhappy childhood: "There is such a thing as emotional contagion. The youngest infant can be infected with fear or anger or disgust or horror even more easily than with the measles." Infected with such fears, he grows up unusually susceptible to disease and accidents (forms of escape or self-punishment...