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THE extent to which the welfare, prosperity and, indeed, the very existence of a nation depend on scientific research and on the application of scientific knowledge has been brought home to everyone during the present War. Their supreme importance was fortunately realized in time in Great Britain, and between 1939 and 1941 arrangements were made between the United Kingdom, the Dominions and the United States for close co-operation in scientific research and the full interchange of scientific and technical information in all matters connected with the War. As a consequence, there are now scientific missions or representatives of the Dominions and the United States in London: the United Kingdom has a scientific representative at Ottawa; and there is at Washington a British Central Scientific Office that acts jointly for the United Kingdom and the Dominions in maintaining a scientific liaison with the United States. In addition, many special missions have been continually at work in all these countries. An attempt in 1941 to bring India into this picture was, however, unfortunately unsuccessful, as the need of this scientific and industrial collaboration was not then recognized in that country.
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Science and Progress in India. Nature 155, 525–529 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155525a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155525a0