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IN France, in common with the other German-occupied countries, there is no longer any freedom of expression, which is the essential fundamental of true art, literature and science, and all that contributed to the high place which that country held in the world of learning is now suppressed. A few of the French intellectuals have escaped and on them will depend the carrying on of the torch of French culture and learning. In order to do this a monthly journal has been founded entitled La France Libre in which the records of work and expression of free thought of these exiles from France will be conserved. By this means free French learning and free French thought will be co-ordinated and kept in being until that time when France is restored to her former freedom and prestige; and indeed it can only be through efforts such as this, and of other intellectual exiles from the oppressed countries, that the individual science and culture of the nations of Europe will survive.
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La France Libre . Nature 146, 742 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146742b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146742b0