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Called to the witness stand were such prominent friends of Dr. Lockhart as Professor Millais Culpin of the University of London, Psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees of London's Tavistock Clinic, Lord Dawson of Penn (King George V's physician). All agreed that Dr. Lockhart was suffering from a "fugue" or flight from reality, brought on by intense fear of a new war. His ordinary stream of consciousness was "suspended," his higher and lower brain levels "dissociated." Hence he had no understanding of the "nature and quality of his act." When his brief gust of abnormal activity had passed...