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Unfortunately, as David Popper has pointed out, Mann has based his essay entirely on a theory whose truth is yet to be proved. The events he ascribes to Machiavellian tactics may be in truth the product of weakness and indecision. "Human drift and stupidity may attain heights beyond imagination, which observers are constantly tempted to ascribe to some planned motives." Nevertheless, the book is worth while for those who are interested in a variety of different interpretations of the historical role of the Munich settlement...
Since Quincy Howe became editor of Simon & Schuster, that industrious publishing firm has brought out three books expressing respectively suspicion of the motives, amusement at the manners, and rage at the methods, of the massive, muddling, Machiavellian empire of George VI. First was Howe's own England Expects Every American To Do His Duty. Next was Margaret Halsey's good-natured account of her stay in England, With Malice Toward Some. Most recent is Robert Briffault's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire...
...debate, in the course of which Professor Schumpeter was variously described as "naive" and as possessing "Machiavellian insight", was conducted on the Oxford Union system, which involved a maximum of cross-examination and a the minimum of perorations. Spencer D. Pollard, instructor in Economics, presided...
Around a dinner table in Manhattan frequently gather some 20 of the ace propagandists in the U. S. This unpublicized, high-powered group calls itself the Council on Public Opinion, chairman is the nation's No. 1 publicist, dark, Machiavellian Edward L. Bernays. Others: General Motors' Public Relations Counsel Paul Willard Garrett, American Iron and Steel Institute's John Wiley Hill, Rockefeller...
Although supple and enterprising to the point of being Machiavellian. Dr. Schacht has the mind and technique of an orthodox banker. As Economics Minister he has browbeaten by sheer personality and held in check other bigwigs such as Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley who as long ago as 1933 proclaimed: "He who organizes the profit mentality must go; he is a mortal enemy of the nation!" Nazi radicals like Dr. Ley have been trying to "get" Dr. Schacht all these years, but last week it was not they who got him. so far as correspondents could discover...