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“Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'”

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John Rawlings Rees

John Rawlings Rees (June 25, 1890 - April 11, 1969) was a British historian, with his research focus on British history and culture. Details about his career and life are limited. more

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