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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Rocky Mountain west believes generally that the Allies have irretrievably lost the war, and that the reason lies in the fact that they called names and offered criticism of Germany without the force necessary to back it up. This is a serious error in any barroom, and today international law and barroom law are about the same. The U. S. is less well prepared to back up its criticisms of the Axis Powers than the Allies were. Therefore it is the height of foolishness for our nation to stick its head in the lion's jaws and incur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...break the Belgian positions in two places-where, incidentally, they seemed to be strongest-and the 'Little Maginot Line,' is not simply an incidental surprise of this war. Its real meaning is that fundamentally our concepts of basic military facts are proved to be largely in error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TACTICS: Miles on What Happened | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...SUCCESSFUL ERROR-Rudolf Allers

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Against Freud | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Longer than In Defense of Love, as unaggressive and scrupulous as the latter is hog-wild, is The Successful Error, by Rudolf Allers. Rudolf Allers is a psychiatrist, formerly of Vienna, and a Catholic. Like many a well-educated Catholic, he uses the instruments not of faith but of logic, thereby finds psychoanalysis illogical in its premises, highly rationalized in their proofs. That one such volume should destroy psychoanalysis is most improbable. That laymen should feel qualified either to swallow or spit out its arguments is only too possible. But that such a volume may aid in the reduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Against Freud | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Through a typographical error in the Monday CRIMSON, Dr. Elizabeth W. Gilboy, Secretary of the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences, was misquoted in one sentence of her report on work relief applicants. The corrected statement is as follows: "eDspite the many serious criticisms which have been leveled at the government work-relief program... Dr. Gilboy concludes that in view of the emergency conditions, the government system has functioned adequately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gilboy Misquoted | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

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