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As labor minister, Barrette found his labor-baiting, domineering boss so difficult to get along with that for the last 21 months of the Duplessis regime Barrette ran his department from Joliette, virtually boycotted cabinet meetings. In his first words as premier, he identified himself with the Sauve reforms, pledged...
The Russians complained that the West was making "tendentious" use of "one-sidedly developed material for the purpose of undermining confidence" in the 180-station control system. The U.S.-British position was that no control system at all might be better than one that lulled the West into an illusion...
"Our shelves hold many books now on the place of faith in science and psychiatry, and on the vicissitudes of man's efforts to love and to be loved," Dr. Menninger writes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "But when it comes to hope, our shelves are bare. The...
Is the stance of the U.S. in world affairs merely that of preserver of the status quo? Is U.S. foreign policy enmeshed in illusion, maladroit in method and impotent to achieve its stated ends?
Too often, as Hughes sees it, waves of popular illusion have swamped U.S. statecraft. For example, since war is linked with force. U.S. folklore arbitrarily divorces the reality of power from the politics of peace. Yet, Hughes argues: "Power plus principles equals policy." Other "myths" Author Hughes finds damaging: the...