SCIENTISTS FEAR PEACETIME SECRECY
o Received Thursdav, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, August 28. Sir Ilenry Dale, in his presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Rcience, nieeting at Dundee, urged scientists to observe a resolute watclifulness to ensure that the secrecy normal in war was not applied to activities proper to peace. Rir Ilenry said the belligerent use of science had made it a weapon for the uiidisoriininating infliction of death and destructiun to rapidly growing ranges on an ever increasing scale. Rcientists must continue to proclaim the danger and their hatred of the perversion of science which involved in nations persisting in using the further advances of science to prepare in secret the perfection of means of anniliilation. "Devotion so complete to the service of war, as that we gave in these recent years, iias involved many of us in obligations of secrecy entirely new to our experience, " he said. Tliis is the association 's lirst full nieeting since 1939. Oue thousand scientists are attending the nieeting the theme of which is "swords into ploughshares. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1947, Page 5
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