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...this division between the physical and the psychological view that ran through most of the 700 papers read at the congress. Psychiatry's grand old man and Zurich's first citizen, Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, 82, was on hand to define the issue. Stooped but hale and quick-witted, Jung reiterated his longstanding position on the psychological side of the fence. His view: the emotional disturbance comes first and causes the chemical disturbances that accompany schizophrenia...
...Bismarck the Prussians won, and the Iron Chancellor set up the German Reich that lasted until the defeat in World War I. Germany's first real experiment with democracy was the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. But despite the efforts of men of vision like Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Stresemann. German democracy was splintered from the start by regionalism, factionalism, and, above all, by a rain-forest proliferation of political parties. Then came Hitler...
Died. Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, 58, world-famed Swedish-born weatherman (TIME, Dec. 17), organizer (1927) of the U.S.'s first airway weather-reporting system, pioneer in modern air-mass-analysis forecasting techniques, discoverer of the "jet stream," founder of Stockholm's International Meteorological Institute; of a coronary thrombosis; in Stockholm...
...Gustav escaped trial when a medical examination proved him senile (he died in 1950), but the temper of the times demanded a Krupp in the dock. Though both the British and Russians declined to try Alfried, he and eleven directors were put on trial before a U.S. court at Nürnberg, were convicted of plundering the industries of conquered countries and exploiting slave labor. Alfried was sentenced to twelve years in prison and forced to forfeit his property, the only property seizure of the war crime trials; his directors got sentences ranging from two to twelve years. The head...
Orderly & Properly. There was nothing in Alfried Krupp's sheltered life to prepare him for this ordeal. The first of Gustav's and Bertha's eight children, he grew up in an atmosphere suggestive of Novelist Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Kaiser Wilhelm II was his godfather. Young Alfried's world centered around Villa Hugel, which was not only a well-regulated German household to its inhabitants but the focus of social life for the Ruhr. The children saw little of their parents or other children, spent most of their time in the care of teachers...