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What makes a man an alcoholic? Alcoholism, answer psychiatrists, is a symptom of mental disease, and thus chronic drinking in many cases may be as unavoidable and blameless as catching a cold. But last week a Pennsylvania court, in a case involving alcoholism, contradicted the psychiatrists' view, argued that a man can avoid becoming an alcoholic if he wants...
...drinks because he desires, intends, wills to experience the effects of drink. . . . Conceding that men do not deliberately intend to become chronic alcoholics, what shall be said of a man who, knowing the ultimate results, seeks the accumulative effects which liquor produces? If a sane man chooses to loose destructive forces upon himself, the law will not relieve him from his folly...
Sighed Dr. Robert Felix, chief of the U.S. Public Health Service's mental hygiene division: "A most sad and unfortunate decision. If this philosophy were adopted in cases of chronic alcoholism, it would set psychiatry as well as medicine back a generation...
...forestall such competitive revaluations of currency as had brought chaos to international trade in the '30s, Fund members have pledged themselves not to make revaluations except to rectify fundamental disequilibriums in their economies. But what is a fundamental disequilibrium? Does it, asked the British, cover "unemployment of a chronic or persistent character" caused by an unfavorable export-import balance...
Most Social Democrats are irked by a chronic crisis of indecision: they cannot make up their minds whether they are primarily Socialists or Democrats. In France last week, the Continent's key Social Democratic party split on this issue...