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SHOULD WE GIVE AWAY OUR SECRETS ?

Scientists hit back at the politicians

By KATHLEEN LONSDALE

D.SC., F.R.S.

X-ray research scientist

SIR ROBERT RENWICK has

rebuked Sir Henry Dale, adviser on atomic energy to the | Prime Minister, for warning the politicians that in the future many scientists will refuse to work under conditions of

gecrecy.

"The scientists," says Sir Robert, in effect, "must continue to be good little backroom boys, and not meddle in the high and holy affairs of poll- tics and national policies".

"Politicians," he says, "do not meddle with science. Let scientists keep away from polities".

This is pure nonsense, Politicians have meddled very much with selence in the past.

On the brink

The atomic bomb is an ideal sabotour's weapon. It could be carried in a crate, and could not be detented axcept with ດ screw- driver.

And if we did attempt the horrible taak of moving ourselves and our industries underground we should ruin ourselves economically.

Path to war

By N. F. MOTT

M.A., F.R.S. President of the Atomic Scientists' Association

SIR Robert Renwick accuses the scientists of Great If all the nations in the world out- Britain, and in particular an ex- law atomic weapons and then go on president of the Royal Society, developing national armaments, wa Sir Henry Dale, of advocating shall be living in a fool's paradise. that no secret scientifle work For that course is as bound to should be. done in Britain. lend to war as it has always done and of thereby imperilling our in the past, and once war breaks out there will be a mad rush to military security. develop any diabolical weapon that will give a quick victory.

Nations cannot afford to be scrupulous in modern war.

And make no mistake about 1: Britain's position is such that she will always be at the wrong end of the atomic bombs; she will always be the most vulnerable to attack by bacteriological or other weapons.

How can we prevent all this?

I do not know what Sir Henry actually nald, but the views altri- buted to him are certainly not those of most scientists, and probably not his.

What selentlsts oli irsist is that the secret work should not, in peacetime, be done in universities where most research on the fundamentals of physics in carried out. This can be argued from many points of view, and not least on Sir, Robert's own ground, that of the military

Only by becoming truly inter-paredness of Britain. national in outlook. Only "by sur- rounding ourselves by friends in- Young men

stend of by "secret" defences which

pre-

are no defence. Only by taking the The two outstanding scientine apparent risks that true friendship | achievements of the war, rador and always involves.

The only security we shall ever mis-set in the future is that of not being

afraid, of not being suspicious.

What happens when the world's politicians meel?

They have taken the results of sclentille investigation, which could and ought to be used exclusively for the benefit of mankind, and applied them so dangerously that civilisation now stands on the brink of an abyss.

And

now

that

scientists have woken up sumelently to protest, the politicians are trying to clap them in chains.

But scientists are also citizens. They have civic responsibilities, and they would be traitors to their awn country, us well as to mankind as a whole, if they did not warn the

had

wars.

Within the last 33 years we have

disastrous world two Why? Because the politicians have insisted that each nation should shut

the atomic bomb, were both based on pure research carried out before the war, and the men who did the work were trained in our universities in the atmosphere of free and enger investigation that existed there.

Our strength as a nation in the future depends on whether we can

body of young! If newspaper reports are correct, creato they seem to do little but snurl and scientists, equally full of ideas and fence for position. At any inter-enthusiasm; they cannot be trained national conference of scientists in an atmosphere of locked

and official

secrets.

there are no national nnimosities, no attempts to gain national advantages.

A boy's reply

Scientists are a world community that might well serve as a prototype

for mankind as a whole.

I

new

doors

We require, too, new developments in pure science, on which should the need arise--the secret weapons of the future can be based, and also the new peaceful industrial processes on which our industrial position will now developments depend. There will arise only in an atmosphere of free and untrammelled inquiry.

cracy.

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By CHAPMAN pincher

DEVELOPMENTS IN SCIENCE

EEP photographs-studio, BRITAIN'S Intest

nocretly portraits in which the de- developed since the war, are. tails stand out in three dimen-ttle more than light-weight "drain-

sions-will be available shortly. funtry. But they will

pipes" that could be carried by in-

fire super-

A process for producing liese 50-heavy shells great distances. lid pictures quickly and cheaply is

The barrel of the new guns is to be operated by a London firm.

open at both ends, Gas escapes back- It was invented by Maurice Bon-wards through a series of funnels. This eliminates "tick," and makes ncomplicated gun-mounting « un- necesary.

net, a 39-year-ohl Frenchman, A special camera moving in an are takes a series of photographs of the sitter, Lighting is normal, Mirrors play no part.

The negatives of these photographs are super-imposed between two thin ass plates by a secret method. The result, seen with the naked eye, 19

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politicians, out of their special know- ledge, that the pursuit of narrow Sir Robert Renwick shows his Sir Robert says also that scientints a picture which looks like a glass national policies will push civilisa-complete ignorance of the offales of should keep away from politics, box containing a solld sculpture of

science if he does not realise that tion over the edge.

Kapitza and Joffe in the U.S.S.Rfessionals, the politicians. This is a

should be left to the pro the sitter. which

three-dimensionál

photograph that Compton, Langmuir, Urey and shocking statement. Politics are the can be taken in about five minuter. EL host of other prominent scientists business of the citizen, in a demo- in the USA., that the Joilots In

Hope for the deal France, and, indeed, scientists from all over the world, have spoken out

PEOPLE who were so deaf that their only hope of continuing social life lay in lip-reading are hearing perfectly as a result of an operation performed by u London surgeon. They were victims of otosclerosi a hårdening of the middle ear aflet- ing more than 2,000,000 men

women in Britain.

bas Sir

set up into a narrow light-fight fearlessly and plainly in favour box, that security consists in surf freedom in science as rounding oneself by high, thick walls and tightly-locked doors.

Taste of jail

It would do Sir Robert Renwick and politicians who think like him all the good in the world to spend a month in joll

They would find that loss of freedom does not make anyone safer, A well-directed bomb sent the walls of one fortress prison tumbling in heaps on the unhappy inmates.

Henry Dale.

Professor Blackett tells the story of a little boy who was asked by his uncle what he wanted to be which he grew up. "I want to be alive" was his answer.

Thanks to the mismanagement of the world's politicians, many little boys of two generations have not

grown up to maturity..

Citizen's duty

In particular it is the duty of the citizen specially to concern himself with those branches of politics In which he has expert knowledge of the conditions in which he can best

nerve the State.

In fact, both in the case of radar and of the atomic bomb, it was the scientists who first recognised the military possibilities, and who show- ed the Government what steps had to be taken.

posalble,

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A small bone called "the stirrup," normally conveying sound from the car drum to the inner eat, becomes wedged in its aperture in the skull. It cannol vibrate, so hearing is in I am ufraid tint what Sir Robert The only cure is to cut a new aper really desires is that scientific policy ture to transmit the vibrations. should be left to Whitehall, to the takes the surgeon three hours to do Civil Service of which he has been thie.

distinguished representative. If Called "fenestration," the operation Britain is not a Nazi country. We that is so, his views will command was first developed in Sweden and are proud to be eltizens; we will not little support from the citizens of a improved In America. The London

democracy.

surgeon has perfected it.

Are we to stand aside and allow them, by a polley of trying to have their cake and eat it, to decimate a third generailon?

And they would and that it made them infinitely poorer; poorer-in be slaves... material things and poorer in spirit.;

If we persist in trying to make our little Island, "set in a silver sea," Invulnerable to attack by the old- fashioned methods of armaments, conscription and secret preparations for defence and attack, we shall

economic bring Britain to

and spiritual bankruptcy, and we shall not save ourselves from military

disaster.

has

For Sir Robert Renwick upparently forgotten that we are now living in an atomic age.

Major-General Leslic Groves, military head of American atomic bomb production, giving evidence before the U.S. Senate Committee on Atomic Energy, declared that America were attacked secretly he would be prepared to rain 10,000 atomic bombs on any country he suspected, without waiting for proof. In the face of such criminal irrespon- sibility, what defence is there ex- cept to be above suspicion?

There is no defence against the alomle bomb. That was admitted by the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and Canada and the Pre- sident of the U.S.A. in the Agreed Declaration of November 1945.

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

Experts sometimes base their de-able to get into a better contract. fence on the sound idea of creating Obviously, he

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West opened the diamond and, on sight of dummy, shifted to a low club, Declarer should have put up dummy's king, bul like 20 this many players who mishandle

į particular" situation, he played low, and East's Jack won. A low spade (was now returned and declarer,

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returned

a diamond. East collected the pee and queen and led a third round. De- clarer ruffed low and led the club nine. West, a player with plenty of nerve, again ducked, and the nine was allowed to ride, declarer hoping to drive out the sco. East, how- ever, won with the queen and con- tinued diamonds, declarer ogain rufing._Now the heart finesse' was tried. East won with the blank king land. realising that he had forced de- The position has not changed.

clarer sufficiently in diamonds, re- There is no development of

turned the spade king. Declarer super-radar or any other invention That could intercept even one per was extremely dangerous. It wased up declarer's lone spade jack, and Obviously, South's two-spade bid won, but that was his last tricit. On another heart load East ruffed, pick- cent,

jet-propelled atomic

probably motivated by the fact that led a club to West's ace. weapons.

Even if 99 per cent could be strength up to this point, but that portunities to go astray (opportu the opponents had shown no great By giving declarer all possible op intercepted it would still not be was not a very sound basis for bid-nities which he graciously accepted!) enough.

ding.

the defendors collected no If we all became troglodytes and

fewer East might have doubled two than ten tricks, holding South to the lived underground we would still not spades for penalties except for his pitiful total of three trump tricks, be, safe.

feeling that the opponents would be land thereby collecting 500 points.

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A mass of propellent explosiva that i would burst an ordinary gun can be backed behind the shell in the wide-bored barrel.

Drainpipe guns can be adapted to anti-tank and field artillery roles. Their use might make tankos obxelete. General W, J. Edridge 48-year-old

rai of Artillery, thinks Director-General atom bombs will play little part in any future field warfare. Their effect cannot be localised—a limitation that

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The toadstool men

THE world's foremost authorities on toadstools are meetlag in London for the jubileo of the British

Mycological Society.

Mycologista study fangi-mush- rooms, toadstools, moulds and yeasts. Mycophagists cat them.

Dr John Ramsbottom, fungal ex- pert of the British Museum, will lead all out into the field. More than 100 enthusiasts will scour Windsor Park for specimen toadstools

The spoils will be laid out on long benches and named by the mycoto- gists. Whereupon the mycophagists will pick out the best for the pot.

They trust Dr Ramsbottom com- pletely

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