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WE are informed that a petition, signed by fifty-two members of the Royal Society of Science and Letters of Göteborg, has been presented to the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs asking him to intervene on behalf of three Norwegian members of the Society who have been imprisoned and subjected to severe treatment in Norway. A translation of the petition reads: “Three foreign members of the Royal Society of Science and Letters of Göteborg have already for a considerable time been deprived of their liberty. They are known to us as eminent scientists and scholars and are citizens beyond reproach. As far as we know, none of them has been convicted of any crime against the laws of their country by a legal court of justice or even accused of any criminal offence. To all of us their fate has given great pain. The fact that Prof. Seip (of the University of Oslo), for reasons unknown to us, has been subjected to cruel treatment has further increased our anxiety on their behalf. We members of the Royal Society resident in Göteborg herewith apply to your Excellency to do everything in your power in order to set our fellow-members at liberty and enable them to resume their studies and research.”It is to be feared that this petition will be of little avail. though it reflects the views of the men of science of neutral countries, and is much to their credit.
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Suppression of Culture in Norway. Nature 149, 407 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149407b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149407b0