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THE departure of Prof. Eric Ashby for Moscow to take up his position as scientific attaché, with the rank of counsellor at the Australian Legation, to which he has been appointed, as recently announced (Nature, Jan. 20, p. 72), marks the first step in fulfilment of a proposal which has been increasingly discussed during the last two years. The interruption of communications by war conditions has of course made it necessary to improvise new organizations now that contacts of men of science are fewer and less easily arranged and even the publication of scientific and technical papers may require to be withheld temporarily or in part. Experience gained during the War with such organizations as the British Central Scientific Office in Washington, the American Scientific Office in London, the Anglo-Soviet Science Collaboration Committee, and the Scientific Co-operation Office of the British Council in China goes far to suggest that, even when normal means of communication and intercourse are fully restored, such organizations may still have a valuable part to play.
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Science in the Foreign Service. Nature 155, 187–188 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155187a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155187a0