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ON Friday, January 27, there was broadcast in the news bulletin in German sent out by the B.B.C., and again in the news bulletin in English later in the evening, an appeal, signed by eighteen leading men in science, literature, the arts, and medicine in Great Britain, to “men of good will who value the fruits of civilization” to join together to prevent the catastrophe of war. “A spirit of uneasiness broods over the world”, the appeal began, and the peoples everywhere, while they know that warfare between modern States can bring no final good, see the armaments of the nations ever growing. It is time for men to break down the artificial barriers of hatred by which they are in danger of being divided, and “to speak across the frontiers to those who feel as they do”. The appeal concluded: “We appeal above all to leaders and people in the great German Reich to use those great gifts by which they have for centuries enriched our common heritage in all fields of human knowledge and activity and to join with us in a supreme effort to lay the spectre of war and enmity between nations, and in a spirit of free and willing co-operation, by which alone can their needs and ours be satisfied, to build with us a better future so that we may not only preserve civilization but hand it down to our children enhanced by our experience”.
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Co-operation Between the Nations. Nature 143, 193 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143193a0
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