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IN this issue we are publishing eleven pages of communications under the heading “Letters to the Editor”. While it cannot be maintained that any of these pages makes easy reading, it is probably not far from the mark to say that every page includes either a definite contribution to knowledge or one or more points worthy of careful consideration. However that may be, the addresses which appear at the ends of the various communications suggest some interesting reflections. In ‘making-up’ these pages, the principal considerations were to achieve a rough balance among the subjects represented and to take account of the date of receipt of communications. The result has been, we hope, a representative series of ‘letters' as regards subjects, the authors of which write from London, Cambridge, Leeds, Reading and Teddington; Edinburgh; Bangor; Belfast and Dublin; Copenhagen, Cracow, Leningrad, Leyden, Moscow, Oslo and Uppsala; Chicago and Philadelphia; and Jerusalem. This list of places demonstrates better than any words of ours the widespread distribution of readers of NATURE, and substantiates the claim of science to be international in scope. In these days of political upheaval, with the exaggerated claims of nationalism imperilling the peace of the world, it is an encouraging thought that among men of science there is still a strong bond of common interest in original investigations and results, and we are gratified that they should select NATURE as the vehicle of their communications. For our part, we can only express the hope that this form of internationalism may grow, for in it we see the germs of the new order in which the spirit of the pursuit of knowledge will unify the interests and shape the destinies of mankind.
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” Letters to the Editor”. Nature 137, 306 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137306a0
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