Medicine: Standing Ready

The psychiatrists have offered their services to the world's politicians. Last week in London the psychiatrists, psychologists and educators attending the International Congress on Mental Health (TIME, Aug. 23) got around to the vexing subject of "world citizenship and group relations."* Unless war is prevented, Cornell University Psychiatrist Carl Binger told the delegates, "there will not be any world to be citizens in."

There is a reasonable way out, declared Dr. Binger, but he was not sure that enough of the world's governments are interested in listening to reason (meaning the scientists). Politicians, he said, would not think of trying to wage...

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