ROYAL SOCIETY
ADDRESS AT ANNUAL MEETING. WAR AND THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Lieutenant-Colonel G. Archey, Auckland, said many members individually were carrying out investigations at the request of the Government, but the society as such had not been asked for its co-opera-tion or advice, as it had been during the last war. That seeming neglect, however, was the result of recommendations 25 years ago, which resulted in the establishment of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Today, he said, national security demanded secrecy in science, not only as to the results of research, but even as to the nature and direction of investigations. Yet secrecy was the antithesis of the scientific spirit, whose aim should be to promote knowledge. There science found its chief quarrel vzith Nazi Germany, where "for years research had been prostituted to create seocret machines and secret weapons for selfish advantage and the destruction of other peoples. There was a danger that the concealment of the results of scientific research in the interests of national security might become a part of the national policy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1942, Page 4
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