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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055400283524 . https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms 3ht jfttemortam JOHN F. KENNEDY 1917-1963 President of the , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at United States January 20, 1961 • November 22, 1963 29 Sep 2021 at 22:56:19 , on 4 170.106.35.93 . IP address: https://www.cambridge.org/core Downloaded from NEWS AND NOTES 1069 IN MEMORIAM SIGMUND NEUMANN, Andrus Professor of Gov mand of international relations in the twentieth https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055400283524 ernment and Social Science and first Director of the century. This REVIEW'S critic wrote that nowhere . Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan Uni will one find "so excellent analysis of the political, versity, died of cancer on Octoper 22, 1962 in social and psychological factors which gave rise to Middletown, Connecticut at the age of 58. National Socialism in Germany, or of the nature He was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 1, and significance of National Socialism on the in 1904, and studied history, economics, political and ternational, national, and personal planes." He social science at the University of Heidelberg, the was a master of the two fields of comparative University of Grenoble and at the University of government and international relations, and as a Leipzig where, in 1927, he was awarded the teacher regularly offered seminars in political doctorate, summa cum laude. His long teaching theory as well. career began at Leipzig in 1926 as an instructor in Increasingly, Neumann was passing ideas on to Sociology. In 1928 he became a lecturer at the others, his undergraduates at Wesleyan, the https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Deutsche Hochschule fiir Politik in Berlin and in many graduate students he found in serving as 1930 was advanced to be Professor of Political sometime visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Sociology and Modern History there. Fletcher, Columbia and elsewhere, and his col Neumann left Germany in 1933. For a year he leagues throughout the profession. Increasingly, was a Rockefeller Research Fellow at the Royal he was reading manuscripts rather than writing Institute of International Affairs and at the them. He served on the editorial boards of this London School of Economics and Political Sci REVIEW and of the Journal of Comparative ence. In 1934 he came to the United States to Studies in History and Society. As a member of the join the faculty of Wesleyan University which he Committee on Comparative Politics of the Social served to the end of his life. He was first a lec Science Research Council for ten years he helped turer, became Associate Professor in 1937 and in organizing special panels and studies of the Professor in 1944. While serving primarily in the newer methods and interests of the field. During Department of Government, as its chairman from this period he edited a major survey of political time to time, he was also an active member of the parties around the world, in the first book on this Department of History and held a kind of roving scale, Modern Political Parties (Chicago 1955). commission in the social sciences. He lived in many worlds and won esteem in all , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at His scholarly reputation was established early, of them. At the time of his death he was a member before he left Germany, particularly by his book of the Council of the American Political Science Die deutschen Parteien: Wesen und Wandel nach Association and President of the New England dem Kriege (Berlin, 1932). He delineated the inner Political Science Association. During World War dynamics of the one-party state in "Political II he had trained senior officers for military Parties in Germany" in the Encyclopedia of the government in central Europe and been a con 29 Sep 2021 at 22:56:19 Social Sciences (Vol. 11, 1933), and also con sultant to the Office of Strategic Services. After tributed a number of that encyclopedia's biog the war he worked with the Military Government , on raphies of German intellectuals. He wrote for a in Germany to reconstruct the social sciences at wide scholarly audience, in the lay quarterlies as German universities, for which the University of well as in the professional journals of political Munich honored him with an LL.D. He also science, sociology and history, and his articles 170.106.35.93 visited the Free University of Berlin as consultant often opened provocative ideas on emerging to the Ford Foundation and was honored there political problems. too, just a few months before his death, with an Many of the ideas set forth first in articles and LL.D. For years he was a regular lecturer at the . IP address: lectures were restated and refined in Neumann's Army War College, National War College, Naval major book, Permanent Revolution: The Total War College and the United States Military Stale in a World at War (New York, 1942). Much Academy. His immense success as a teacher was was original but sixty pages of bibliography attest signified in 1960 when the Wesleyan Class of 1936 to his acquaintance with the literature. The book presented him the first James L. McConaughy, was praised especially for its novel exposition of Jr. Memorial Award. the subject of the leader and his lieutenants. He At Wesleyan, he was not only a most popular thought it his most significant work, and before teacher and companion of students. He was fre his death he labored to complete a revision of it, quently elected to membership on the important https://www.cambridge.org/core which is to be published in 1964. faculty committees dealing with educational In his next book, The Future in Perspective policy and personnel. And during the last five (New York, 1946), Neumann displayed his com years of his life he directed two unique institutions Downloaded from 1070 THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW on the Wesleyan campus. One was the Honors Brownlow's two great interests, politics and ad College which brought top undergraduates of all ministration. departments together for social refrshment and His death September 27, 1963, at age 84, intellectual discourse. The other was the new ended a fourfold career. Its first phase had been Center for Advanced Studies bringing accom as a political reporter: he was brought up in the https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055400283524 plished scholars, professional men and artists old vigorous traditions of Southern journalism, . from around the world to Middletown for a few and served with Watterson in Louisville and suc weeks, a semester or a year. His wife, Anna, had ceeded Irvin Cobb in Paducah. Its second was as died in 1954 and so, after, 1958, he served around a municipal administrator, beginning when the clock in his quarters at Russell House as head Woodrow Wilson made him chairman of the of Honors College and the Center. Excitement commissioners of the District of Columbia, and was in the air wherever he was.—CLEMENT E. continuing as a city manager in Petersburg and VOSE Knoxville, and as one of those who did most to set the standards of the city manager profession. Third, as the first Director of Public Administra S. B. MCALISTER, Texas distinguished professor tion Clearing House, he brought together the of government and director of government at associations of public agencies and officials in the https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms North Texas State University died March, 1963. "1313" center at Chicago; undertook, sometimes with their cooperation, to help them maintain FLOYD EMERY MCCAFFREE, Chairman of His an active relationship with the world of academic tory and Political Science in C. W. Post College, research especially through his chairmanship of died suddenly of heart failure, on June 2. He was the Committee on Public Administration of the born in Canova, South Dakota, in 1905. He re Social Science Research Council; and served as an ceived his B.A. degree at the University of Michi adviser to President Roosevelt, and chairman of gan, and his Ph.D. degree (as a Brookings Insti his Committee on Administrative Management, tution fellow) in 1938. He was among the brilliant in developing the main organizational strategy of group of scholars and teachers recruited by the the New Deal. late Jesse Reeves in the Political Science Depart Fourth, of course, was the period after his nom ment at the University of Michigan. His The inal retirement, when with little loss of energy Personnel of the United States Supreme Court, and none of zest he found fewer constraints on 1790-1931 was a significant study of the Court. his talents for speaking and writing. This gave In 1939 Dr. McCaffree joined the staff of the him the chance to give a wider public (through Research Division of the Republican National his two-volume autobiography, A Passion for , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at Committee in Washington, D. C, as a research Politics and A Passion for Anonymity) the flavor associate, and from 1943 to 1960 served as Direc of one of the most remarkable feats of self-educa tor of Research for the Committee. In his numer tion in American history. Not many men, I sup ous reports for the Committee, he never engaged pose, have been elected Vice President of the in personalities, but strictly confined himself to American Political Science Association without political and economic issues, conditions and ever having attended school. (Brownlow always trends. In 1960 he was appointed chairman of 29 Sep 2021 at 22:56:19 liked to remind his friends that this was not History and Political Science in C.