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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nations. ... It was a moral, if you will, a religious issue. There was a precious opportunity for church and synagogue to champion an indispensable plan for removal of the blight of war from the earth. But the record speaks for itself. We permitted politicians and narrow-visioned isolationists to destroy the only possible good effect of the World War and have thus nullified the sacrifice of ten million lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rabbis in Michigan | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...real purpose of Nazi Propagandists Goebbels and staff, Taylor declares, "was not to convert outsiders to their cause as commercial propagandists do, but to demoralize the enemy, to destroy the cohesion, discipline and collective morale of hostile social groups." This was first fully realized by the French General Staff, to whom military intelligence furnished manuals worked out by a psychological laboratory connected with the German Ministry of Propaganda. Object: to aggravate and confuse the struggles of interests and political religions in western Europe. Of the two principal religions Taylor observes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychological Warfare | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...option would then barter, sell, give away, dump or destroy those goods. If the U. S. sold Brazilian coffee in Europe, it would reduce the $300,000,000 credit by the amount sold. Theoretically such transactions should be done at a profit-and profits were mentioned at the White House-but no profits can be foreseen. Actually, the program would probably show a dead loss of $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 annually. This cost, Mr. Roosevelt was advised, would be better defense than $500,000,000 in tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: All-American Plan | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Last week President Moore was in Ottawa, trying to convince CBC officials that these sources are "authentic." Said he, darkly: "Selfish publishing and monopolistic interests in Canada . . . have leagued themselves together to destroy independent news services throughout the Dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canada & the Press | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...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-to-scale of a science too liable to theological elephantiasis is most devoutly to be hoped...

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

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