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An Overview on Reliability Models at Different Failure Modes | Original Article

Rakesh Kumar*, Vijesh Kumar, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

Connolly made an interesting choice for the contribution to immediately follow Harrod’s piece a tract by Howard Evans, ‘Communist Policy and the Intellectuals.’ This placement conveys the sense that the editor wants a direct comparison to be made to Harrod’s essay and is undoubtedly meant to show that Horizon is willing to share radically different viewpoints. What is surprising, however, is that despite the venom with which Evans attacks what he assumes to be the core group that both supply and consume Horizon, some aspects of his conclusions fall into line with those of Harrod, as well as with Priestley and Read. Evans’ essay is a diatribe against current ‘soft’ liberal thought, and a defence of the Soviet decision to enter into the non-aggression pact with Germany. He begins with an indictment of less radical left-leaning writers. For over two years, a large section of the English intelligentsia has been becoming increasingly hostile towards the Soviet Union. It has also been showing a marked preference for the false ‘totalitarian’ conception of Nazi Germany as a new type of state no longer serving the interests of German Imperialism. It has been waiting, one might even say longing, for an excuse to declare itself equally anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi. This excuse has now been provided by the war situation and events since—and including—the Soviet German non-aggression pact.