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Sometime the line between traitor and patriot is a thin one, often depending upon the viewer. This person is in that category. He can be viewed as the greatest traitor in German history. Or he can be viewed as one of the greatest patriots.“Few visitors to Berlin's vast concrete and glass foreign ministry building take much notice of the brass plate bearing the name Fritz Kolbe, affixed just three weeks ago to the door of one of its elegant wood-panelled conference rooms. Most Germans have never heard of Fritz Kolbe.““Yet the nameplate and a black and white photograph of a balding, impish-looking man with protruding ears on a wall inside the chamber have been reunited in Germany's attempt, 59 years on, to make amends for one of the shabbiest episodes in its post-war history.““Kolbe was described by the CIA as the most important spy of the Second World War. As a bureaucrat in Adolf Hitler's foreign ministry, he smuggled 2,600 secret Nazi documents to American intelligence in Switzerland from 1943 onwards, continuing his task undetected until the war ended.““No other German damaged the Nazi regime to such an extent. Kolbe supplied the Americans with vital information about where the Germans expected the allies to land in Normandy, crucial facts about the Nazi V1 and V2 rockets and Japanese military plans in south-east Asia. He even exposed a valet working in the British embassy in Ankara as a German spy.“"My aim was to help shorten the war for my unfortunate countrymen and to help concentration camp inmates avoid further suffering," Kolbe wrote from his home in Switzerland in 1965. He never accepted money for his work as a spy.““Yet after the war, Kolbe was dismissed as a traitor by successive German governments. His attempts to rejoin the foreign ministry were repeatedly rejected and he was forced to end his days working as a salesman for an American chainsaw company, until his death in Switzerland in 1971.”"The risks Kolbe took were incalculable," wrote Allan Dulles, Kolbe's American intelligence minder in Switzerland after the war. "I just hope that the injustice done to him will be reversed one day and that his country recognises his true role."“Kolbe's name is still not mentioned in German history books. But the German government's decision earlier this month to award him a posthumous honour by naming a foreign ministry conference room after him represents an attempt to do justice to his memory.”"It is very late, but not too late to pay tribute to Fritz Kolbe," admitted Joschka Fischer, the German Foreign Minister, at a ceremony in Berlin earlier this month. "The honour is long overdue. It was not a glorious page in our foreign ministry's history," he said.““Kolbe's rehabilitation has been inspired by the release of his private letters and CIA documents relating to his case that were declassified only four years ago. The information was used as a basis for a new book entitled Fritz Kolbe, the Second World War's Most Important Spy, by the French historian Lucas Delattre.““More than 30 years after Kolbe's death, Delattre's book has managed to provoke some serious soul searching in Germany. "Kolbe's story demonstrates that ordinary Germans could do something to fight Hitler's madness - and post-war Germany treated him like a leper because of his actions," remarked Stern magazine.““Kolbe was recruited by the foreign ministry as a junior diplomat at the age of 25. His career took him to Madrid and Cape Town, before he was ignominiously ordered back to Berlin in 1939, having repeatedly refused to join other German diplomats and become a paid up member of the Nazi party.““His refusal to join the party barred him from taking interesting jobs abroad and Kolbe was given lowly work stamping passports and visas in Von Ribbentrop's foreign ministry. For the first three years of the war, Kolbe spent his time railing against the Nazis with like-minded friends in the back room of a Berlin pub and occasionally dumping anti-Nazi leaflets in telephone boxes.““Kolbe felt impotent as the increasing barbarity of the Nazis became more apparent. But in November 1941, at a soirée of the renowned and discreetly anti-Nazi surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch, he underwent something of a conversion. Kolbe was visibly distressed to hear an account of the Nazis' programme to systematically murder thousands of mentally ill patients, regarded as "people with lives useless" to the Reich. Out of his horror sprung a fervent determination to take on the mission to fight the Nazis.““He was painfully aware that the files and documents which passed over his desk every day could be of paramount importance to the Allies in their war against the regime. The only question was how to provide them with it.”“He had to wait nearly three years before he was given the chance. It came when a superior foreign office employee and fellow Nazi critic agreed to put Kolbe on the list of officials privileged to act as diplomatic couriers for the Third Reich.““On the morning of 15 August 1943, Kolbe locked the door of his foreign ministry office, dropped his trousers and bound two large envelopes containing hundreds of mimeographed secret documents to his legs. Equipped with a diplomatic bag full of official dispatches, he boarded a train decked out in Nazi swastika flags at Berlin's Anhalter railway station and set off for the Swiss capital, Berne.““On his first visit to the British embassy in Berne, Kolbe was laughed at and promptly dismissed. The Americans, quicker to trust him, were the first to realise what he could do for the Allied forces.““Meetings continued and by 1944, the Americans valued the information supplied under Kolbe's codename "George Wood" so highly that only 11 people, including President Roosevelt, were allowed to see his documents. By the end of the war, MI6 had conceded it had made a gross misjudgement and singled out Kolbe as "the prize intelligence source of the war". But he was not appreciated by a defeated German people. At best he was regarded as a traitor. At worst he had the blood of millions of his countrymen on his hands.”AttributionFritz Kolbe - Wikipediahttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-finally-honours-the-traitor-spy-who-gave-nazi-secrets-to-america-547543.htmlA Time to Act: The Beginning of the Fritz Kolbe Story, 1900–1943

Technically it wasn’t clinical psychology, but counseling psychology. I became clinical in a hurry, though, with an all-clinical internship in the country hospital, and working in clinical areas throughout my career. I never had a counseling job.Even my dissertation was pretty clinical. My advisor and I had the idea that male clients were significantly disadvantaged in psychotherapy. They got more serious diagnoses than women, with identical symptoms.I had one set of symptoms and two variables. Male vs. female and low income vs. high income. I was expecting that males would get much more serious diagnoses for the set of symptoms, and it would be compounded by whether they were described as low income and working from home or high income and working outside the home.My subject pool were 1000 members of the American Psychological Association’s Division 29, “Psychotherapy.”I had a stuffing party at my house when the surveys were set to go out. I bought beautiful envelopes, the perfect commemorative stamps, anything I could think of to get the attention of these senior psychotherapists. Friends with beautiful handwriting addressed the envelopes, making sure to include relevant degrees, etc. Other friends collated and stuffed and sealed envelopes.I was thrilled to get over 500 useable responses.And the results were even more thrilling, from the standpoint of a budding researcher. Males got much more serious diagnoses than females, overall. If those males were also lower income and worked out of the home, the difference was dramatic. Subjects weren’t too concerned with the females’ income.It was a huge task and the result was a set of black, book-bound copies of the dissertation, hundreds of pages long. The complex inferential statistics were perfect because I’d hired a married couple, also Ph.D. students but in statistics, to supervise that part.It was 1994. I had a full time job as a psychologist already (grandfathered in at the master’s level and upgraded “by exception” based on a Doctor of Ministry degree in the mid 1980’s — something no other state would likely accept, hence the need for the Ph.D. Working full time and doing a complicated dissertation — that was the busiest I’ve ever been in my life, before or since, but glad I did it.

On the eve of 2 years completion of Narendra Modi led NDA-Government let’s review some of the “low profile’’ initiatives :UDAY has bound the states to a hard-budget constraint and the debt of power utilities brought within the overall FRBM envelopeHELP - the new hydrocarbon exploration policy, will help India reduce its dependence on imports significantly and assist domestic user industryThe India-Mauritius Treaty, renegotiated to prevent round-tripping of black money, will have a salutary impact on corruptionThe razor-sharp follow-up of PM’s economic engagements abroad, leading to an unprecedented $63 billion of FDI in 2016, overtaking China;A new Global Convention Centre has come up in Pragati Maidan and even stalled infrastructure projects have been restarted.Exceptional progress was made in resolving knotty issues—OROP and Kisan crop insurance programme—bes­ides the DBT and Aadhaar Act, which has already saved $3 billion in its first year of operations by targeting a very small fraction of subsidies to start with.Significant changes were made to environmental laws for affordable housing and all states were brought on board to modify building bylaws for itA proposal to create 20 world-class universities and exempt them from the tyranny of UGC and AICTE will have huge multiplier effects on the economy.The Rs 90,000-crore Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Rail Link is happening as a result of a loan at 0.1 per cent interest over a 50-year time period from Japan, and this is because of the personal relationship that the PM fostered with the Japanese!The unique 360-degree multi-source feedback model is exceptional and has led to another major achievement of this government: almost zero corruption in high places. Be it government or judiciary or defence or PSUs or banks or the CBI, they have ensured officials of integrity and competence occupy key decision-making positions, leading to a massive clean-up of large procurements. For the first time, officials sitting anywhere in India can aspire for key positions, without need for patronage. BUT this government has not got as much credit for eradicating corruption as the preceding ones got criticism for the corruption!!Others : The ongoing repeal of over 1,000 archaic laws, which were responsible for slowdown in decision-making and entailed corruption; restructuring the Medical Council of India; total autonomy to scientific, space and research institution etc,etc……All these initiatives were owned, designed and powered by individual ministries, under the guidance of a watchful, not interfering PMO. Similarly, the Group of Secretaries reports on a roadmap for India on a continual basis, while PRAGATI is used effectively to craft, coordinate, collaborate and build consensus on new policy designs, bringing on board both the states and the Union ministries.At last,I would like to add one small example of how decision making happens in this government :We know about Nripendra Mishra,Principle Secratory to PM,Aged 72 yet working 24*7*365 tirelessly.This incident is about him :In a matter of four meetings, he restarted the famous Enron power project by getting RGPPL, railways, power ministry and the Maharashtra government to come on one page. Today, the plant produces 500 MW. More importantly, this prevented IDBI and SBI loans of over Rs 5,000 crore from becoming NPAs!-The single solution for numerous problems!So,my answer is,YES,Narendra Modi is really doing MUCH development.-Tirthkumar Patel