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The Conditions of Disarmament

THE PRESIDENT electrified the Geneva conference when he suddenly proposed an exchange of military blueprints with Russia, followed by mutual aerial reconnaissance, in order to eliminate the fear of surprise attack. Was this, the world wondered, the bold new plan which could banish the fear of an atomic war? The conviction that some radically new approach would be required was growing in all parts of the world as the fantastic character of the technological revolution in warfare began to permeate men's minds. How fundamental this revolution really is can perhaps be grasped in terms of this simple fact. In the last war a ton of TNT cost $iooo. Today, the same explosive effect can be delivered via the hydrogen bomb for io cents. This is a stepup in destructive power by a factor of io,ooo. Now differences of degree of this magnitude are tantamount to differences in kind. This is not simply an aggravation of a condition that we have somehow managed to survive in the past: it is in a fundamental sense a new kind of situation. For example, even the relatively small number of deaths suffered by our armed forces in World War II, when the war never reached our shores, would if multiplied by io,ooo be almost twice the population of the whole world. Moreover, this leaves out of account the radiation effects which could well turn out to be far more dangerous. One authority has estimated that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, and the various atomic tests undertaken up to now, have raised the level of radiation in the atmosphere about I/IOOO of the distance to the level which would be fatal to human survival. Now it is readily possible, even likely, that an all-out hydrogen bomb war could diffuse 999 times as

In the Minds of Men: The Study of Human Behavior and Social Tensions in India.

In the Minds of Men: The Study of Human Behavior and Social Tensions in India.

Free Voices in the Battle for Men's Minds

Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia have found that the most effective job can be done by using refugees from the target areas to prepare and to broadcast the programs. This article, based upon the author's M.A. thesis at New York University, is drawn largely from official sources in the sponsoring committees.

In The Minds of Men

In The Minds of Men

Franklin and Germany: Further Evidence of His Reputation in the Eighteenth Century

The names of two men and two only represented our nation to foreign countries during the century that saw it emerge from colonial status to the dignity of independence. These were George Washington, the military and political leader, and Benjamin Franklin, the spokesman for America in the realms of the intellect. Although both names were frequently joined in the judgment of their contemporaries, and especially those in Germany, this study intends to separate them and consider only the reputation of Benjamin as it is documented by the words of certain representative Germans during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. The standard work in English on the subject of influence in German is Benjamin and Germany, the doctoral dissertation of Beatrice Marguerite Victory, published as Number 21 of the America Germanica series of the University of Pennsylvania in 1915. Dr. Victory discusses at length visit to GSttingen with Sir John Pringle in the summer of 1766, and in subsequent chapters deals with Franklin's Reputation in Europe Germany a. In the Eighteenth Century, and with Franklin as known to Goethe, Schiller, Justus Moiser, and Herder (Johann Fried.). It might be argued that in view of the existence of this painstaking piece of scholarship there is no need of pursuing the subject further, but, although Dr. Victory's monograph contains much basic material, it does not exhaust its subject and naturally cannot give consideration to the material gathered by the investigators of the last generation. It is useful to distinguish three periods in the development of reputation in Germany. In the first, prior to 1776, he is known as the conqueror of lightning and inventor of the lightning-rod. Indeed, it would be difficult to name any other happening in the eighteenth century which stimulated human imagination as keenly as did the famous experiment with the kite. Here was to be seen an outstanding example of the power of man's mind to analyze and tame natural forces that had hitherto with-

The Public Library's Function and the Fiction Question

The fiction question—i.e., whether or not light literature should be provided in public libraries—has exercised men's minds since 1850 and before, and there is every sign that it is still very much alive today. One may perhaps wonder that members of a profession having broadly the same objects in life have not yet reached unanimity on this fundamental point, but we are far from an agreed philosophy of librarianship: we are not at all clear as to what a public library is for.

Book Review: The Christianity of Main Street. By Theodore O. Wedel. Macmillan. 7s. 6d; One Man's Mind. By John Rowland. S.C.M. Press. 7s. 6d

Book Review: The Christianity of Main Street. By Theodore O. Wedel. Macmillan. 7s. 6d; One Man's Mind. By John Rowland. S.C.M. Press. 7s. 6d

Brain-Washing in Red China. The Calculated Destruction of Men's Minds.

Brain-Washing in Red China. The Calculated Destruction of Men's Minds.

ACS Award Address

ABOUT three thousand million years ago, a series of events took place which led to the formation of our earth together with the other planets of our solar system. It now seems likely that the events which took place near our own sun were not unique. Recent work on the frequency distribution of double and multiple star systems leads us to believe that within the portion of our universe which is visible to our telescopes there may be a very large number of solar systems, each composed of one or more bodies of matter circling about a mother sun. The problem of the origin of our own solar system is one that has challenged men's minds for many years. It is a problem of such complexity that many aspects of it will probably challenge men's minds for generations to come. And even when we think we know most of the answers, we will suffer from ...

War and the Minds of Men. By Frederick S. Dunn. New York: Harper and Bros., 1950. pp. xvi, 112. Index. $2.00.

War and the Minds of Men. By Frederick S. Dunn. New York: Harper and Bros., 1950. pp. xvi, 112. Index. $2.00.

Unesco: Peace in the Minds of Men

Journal Article Unesco: Peace in the Minds of Men Get access Unesco: Peace in the Minds of Men. By Theodore Besterman. London. Methuen, 1951. xi+133 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 734′​′×5′​′⁠. 10s. 6d. International Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 1952, Page 78, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604988 Published: 01 January 1952

An Annotated Bibliography of Journalism Subjects in American Magazines

The increasing international tension in the last quarter of the year put additional emphasis on publicity and propaganda in the battle for men's minds. The Voice of America was considerably strengthened, with promises of still more support to come. In domestic radio, the Columbia Broadcasting System's method of color television was approved by the FCC, only to precipitate a louder debate and a succession of court actions… . In the field of advertising, Dr. George Gallup announced a new evaluation technique which some thought might be as revolutionary as his readership principles have been in the past twenty years… . In the field of news writing and press responsibility several writers were still concerned with what they considered to be a qualitative weakening of journalistic standards. These appeared to be the leading professional problems as the second half of the twentieth century began. —W. F. S.

War and the Minds of Men. By Frederick S. Dunn. (New York: Published by Harper & Brothers for the Council on Foreign Relations. 1950. Pp. xvi, 115. $2.00.)

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War and the Minds of Men, by Frederick S. Dunn

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War and the Minds of Men

Journal Article War and the Minds of Men Get access War and the Minds of Men. By Frederick S. Dunn. Foreword by Percy W. Bidwell. New York, Harper for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1950. xvi+115 pp. Index. 8¾″ × 6″. $2. F. C. Bartlett F. C. Bartlett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 1951, Page 343, https://doi.org/10.2307/2606426 Published: 01 July 1951

The Commonwealth in Asia

STRONG winds are blowing all over Asia, declared Pandit Nehru at the opening of the Inter-Asian Conference at New Delhi in March 1947. Their strength and their direction cannot even now be measured at all precisely, for the driving force of Asian nationalism is assuredly not yet spent, and the social tensions, aiding nationalism in some countries, fundamentally at variance with it in others, are most certainly not yet resolved. But it is now apparent that the essential moderation in external policy, which guided predominant opinion in New Delhi in I947, remains unimpaired by the impact of rapid, even bewildering, change. Here it may be that the timeless wisdom of the East will enable Southern to survive some of the strains, inseparable from a period of revolution, more easily than Europe. If it does so, history will pay due tribute to the teaching and example of Mahatma Gandhi in the subcontinent of India and to the statesmanship of all in high office who refused to allow past memory to distort their judgement of present needs. In I947 there were many who believed that the ending of Western Imperialism should also bring to an end intimate relations with the West. Asia for the Asians was in their eyes synonymous with an exclusive continentalism. Talk of an Asian bloc was fashionable and hopes were expressed that at least Southeast and South might become a neutralised region of the world. Yet, however attractive such proposals might seem to peoples long subjected to alien rule, a closer inspection of them brought to view rivalries within which cast serious doubts upon their practicability, as well as the probability of reactions which could be only unhelpful to both West and East. Fundamentally it was the long-term maritime interests of the countries of South and Southeast which precluded any such policy of contracting out or of isolation from world affairs. Yet the fact that such thoughts were in men's minds deserves to be recalled in any review of the relations between the new Dominions of and the British Commonwealth. For, in thinking of a future association with the Common-

The Faith and Man's Mind

The Faith and Man's Mind

The Technological Fallacy in Contemporary Poetry: Hart Crane and MacKnight Black

W RITERS OF the I920'S, when they were conscious of the machine at all, saw it either as the perfect, concrete demonstration of man's ingenious mind or as the last desperate symbol of the evil which science had wrought upon his vain efforts toward a rational life. Some poets saw the machine as a happy symbol of energy completely freed from the inhibitions and disintegrative imbalance of the errant human personality: power working and obedient, operating within the limits of natural energy, assimilating and using that energy with apparent ease and delicacy of movement and operation; precision such as man had always failed to achieve and could never hope to achieve. To realize a similar balance and efficiency was scarcely the aim of many poets; but they were impressed nevertheless by it and sometimes paid clumsy tribute to it in their poems. The danger of the machine age to poetry, said Babette Deutsch in a New Republic essay, was not that it hurries us along too fast, or that it shrinks our horizons, or that it robs us of a comprehensive philosophy, but that it forces us to live in a world as empty of emotional values as the algebraic letter X. The poems which attempt to realize the machine in poetic terms usually fail because they remake it into an object directly available to human emotions. The poems which despair of the machine express the consequence of machinery upon our lives, but the machine enters into our lives and into our poetry in an oblique, indirect, tangential fashion.1 In I930 Oliver Sayler edited Revolt in the Arts, a collection of essays on the place of the machine in modern arts. The most noteworthy of the essays in the volume was Hart Crane's Modern Poetry, a discussion of the specific nature of the machine's vocabulary and of its adaptability to poetic expression. The poet's concern, said Crane, is toward a formal integration of experience.' This self-discipline includes all readjustments incident to

Calvin, Serveto and Rabelais

consequences was also familiar to him. Ptolemy illustrates well the fact that a mere mechanical application of the various steps in scientific method is no guarantee of infallible conclusions. The weakness of Ptolemy's work lies paradoxically enough not in the fact that he was not empirical but that he was too empirical in a naive sense. For this he cannot be blamed for the analysis of the difficulties involved in adequate observation had not proceeded very far. The hold which the Ptolemaic system took on men's minds is in part explicable by the fact that it did attempt to save the appearances. It is only when the appearances themselves are recognized to be ambiguous that alternative approaches are seen to be logically possible.

‘I, Too, Am An African’

Historically, from the fact of its colonization by white men from the sea, Southern Africa has been linked in men's minds rather with Europe than with the rest of the African continent, and the truly African character of its inhabitants, even of the Whites, has been too easily forgotten, in spite of the use of the name Afrikaner (meaning merely African). In recent years, however, largely owing to the war and consequent movements of troops and population, the average white inhabitant of Southern Africa has become much more conscious of his relationships with the rest of the continent and with its aboriginal inhabitants, and aware of his responsibilities and the opportunity there is for him to play a decisive part in the future of Africa south of the Sahara, now in a state of rapid social, economic, religious and political development. This new awareness, long latent in the land-consciousness of the Afrikaans-speaking population, and now making itself felt among all sections of the people, is given utterance in the words of Field-Marshal Smuts used as a title to this article, and may be traced in many recent items of news from South Africa.It is necessary, in order to avoid misconceptions, to preface a few statements of fact about the area of which we are speaking. Southern Africa differs from the rest of Black Africa in being the only part in which a people of European origin have made a home, though it can be doubted whether this colonization will be permanently successful much further north than Pretoria or Durban or in the arid western parts of the region.