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I HAVE just read Lord Walsingham's excellent letter in NATURE of September 5, and agree with all he says as to what should be our line of action towards the scientific men of German. It is impossible we can meet them just as if nothing had happened since 1914. I quote this sentence (how true it is!):ββIt is impossible to dissociate the mental attitude of the population of that country, by no means excepting the highly educated and scientific classes, from the world-conquering aspirations of their rulers, or from the barbarous atrocities committed by them in pursuit of that national ideal.β
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GODWIN-AUSTEN, H. Future Treatment of German Scientific Men. Nature 102, 64β65 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102064d0
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