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A LITTLE more than a year ago, a number of scientific workers and scholars formed themselves into an Academic Assistance Council with the intention of helping university teachers and investigators “who on grounds of religion, political opinion or race were unable to carry on their work in their own country”. The Council consists of forty-two members, representative of all sides of British intellectual activity, and its first annual report, which has just been issued, is a document worthy of careful study. Upon the Council's records are the names of 1,202 scholars and scientific workers who have been displaced. Of these, rather more than a quarter, 389, have been permanently or temporarily-in the majority of instances only temporarily-enabled to continue their work, 178 in the British Isles, 211 abroad. There remain 813 so far un-succoured.
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Science and Intellectual Liberty. Nature 133, 701–702 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133701a0
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