Word: polls
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These plans were meeting opposition last week from an unexpected quarter-Germany. Both Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Socialist Opposition Leader Kurt Schumacher have said that they do not want a German army. A public-opinion poll in the new republic showed that 60% of the Western Germans do not want to bear arms. Certainly, it was unrealistic to expect, as some Western military leaders have suggested, that Germans would long bear arms under foreign officers, i.e., under Western Union headquarters. Cried the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine last week: "You cannot buy German military ability for money, white bread and corned beef...
Letters of apology were sent yesterday by Professor Gordon W. Allport, chairman of the Social Relations Department, to several hundred recipients of a poll taken by an undergraduate. The polls were later ordered to be burned...
...undergraduate had sent out the poll, which contained many questions dealing with Communism, last Monday. Unknown to his tutor, he had placed numbers under the stamps of the return envelopes...
Although the names of those polled were anonymous to the student, the Social Relations Department recognized that this method could lead to abuse of their right to secrecy if the poll got into the wrong hands...
...solution to this difficult problem, he said, is the code number system, but people always forget their numbers from the first to the second poll...