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...them and helped them. In one of the most exciting and intelligent books produced by World War II, one of these British officers, Captain George Reid Millar, has described his experiences as an area leader of the French Resistance. Captain Millar has the face of a fanatic without a dogma (this made it possible for him to lead a forlorn hope). He also has a sense of the absurd, which makes it difficult for him to take seriously the politics of the Right or the Left. This helps to keep his report of the Resistance in focus as a patriotic...
...Commissioner of Education, pragmatic Dr. Stoddard had something more to say about mental deterioration. "Feeble in mind," he wrote in a book called The Meaning of Intelligence, "are the persons whose intact brains, giving the highest promise up through childhood, . . . have been so systematically drugged with the vapors of dogma, superstition and pseudo logic. . . . Man-made concepts, such as devils, witches, taboos, hellfire, original sin . . . and divine revelation . . . have distorted the intellectual processes of millions of persons...
Assault by Dogma. Last week, day after the Laski speech, Bank of England stock, which rates as a trustee security, fell ?9½, down to ?357½. Governor Thomas Sivewright Catto and his fellow bankers sat tight. Nationalization would mean that the bank's ?14,533,000 capital stock, held by some 35,000 Englishmen, would be bought by the British Treasury...
...Robert Lacoste, veteran trade unionist and Minister of Industrial Production in General de Gaulle's Government, expounded a revolutionary dogma for France's economy...
...this dogma, said Minister Lacoste, a new system was being built. Deep-rooted French individual enterprise would be largely uprooted. All branches of industrial and food production-coal, steel, textiles, etc.-would operate under the Government's "provisional commissioners." "Sixty such officials, responsible to the Ministry of Production and appointed with the advice of the trade unions, were already at work. The state would decide what to produce, how to allocate materials and manpower. The commissioners would have advisory councils ("professional offices") composed equally of workers and employers...