Recent Impressions of War-Time America

Abstract

AS the result of long-standing invitations to attend the Second Conference on Differentiation and Growth at Salsbury Cove, Maine, and to lecture at the Californian universities (Stanford and Berkeley) on my own subject, I spent a period of five months (June–October) last summer in the United States, during the course of which I visited some twenty universities and colleges. I was glad to take the many opportunities which offered themselves of speaking on the present position of science in Europe. In this I dealt both with the situation of science in British democracy at war, the organization of the scientific contribution to the national effort against the Nazi-Fascist powers, the effects on the universities and similar institutions, etc., and with the nature and origin of the Nazi attack on all free international science and scholarship.