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November 1951

Living With Relations

General Service Headquarters, through its group relations activities, tries to live a paradox: To give advice in a paternal way without turning into Papa. . .

BECAUSE the world is dedicated to what has been called "The tyranny of words," it has become the course of very least resistance to reduce all human perplexities to phrases. One such phrase, in AA, is "group relations," which would seem to explain itself without possibility of confusion. But while the two words are of simple, everyday usage, the fact itself is at once so elementary and so complicated as to defy complete definition.

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