PROBLEM OF THE MODERN WORLD
Received Thursday, 7.0 p.m; LONDON, July 24. The problem of the modern world was not so much to make advances in science but how to secure a world in which those advances could be made with safety, declared Mr. Attlee at a dinner in London last night which ended the eleventh international congress of pure and applied chemistry. Science, he. said, could only flourish in an atmosphere of freedom where men and women could say what they | would. Chemists were needed today I for construction and the betterment of the world and he hoped that never again would chemists be diverted from their beneficient work to destruction purposes which might wreck civilisation. In chemistry the -same iiivention that could destroy life couid.v also give it. j ? >}. ? I
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 July 1947, Page 5
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