Word: tavistock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks mail sacks crammed with ballots had been lugged into the red brick headquarters of the British Medical Association in Bloomsbury's Tavistock Square. A blue-uniformed B.M.A. porter guarded the doors to the room where clerks (sworn to secrecy) counted the answers. The ballots were replies to a question sent to 55,842 B.M.A. members: Would Britain's doctors be willing to serve under the new National Health Service Act backed by Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan...
Besides his zoological hobbies, the Duke has dabbled in Communism, Buchmanism, Social Credit and Fascism. Currently he is a Pacifist and Social Creditor. Early in 1940, when he was still the Marquess of Tavistock, he turned up at the Foreign Office with a peace proposal which he claimed came from the German Legation in Dublin...
Called to the witness stand were such prominent friends of Dr. Lockhart as Professor Millais Culpin of the University of London, Psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees of London's Tavistock Clinic, Lord Dawson of Penn (King George V's physician). All agreed that Dr. Lockhart was suffering from a "fugue" or flight from reality, brought on by intense fear of a new war. His ordinary stream of consciousness was "suspended," his higher and lower brain levels "dissociated." Hence he had no understanding of the "nature and quality of his act." When his brief gust of abnormal activity had passed...