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THE Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the U.S.S.R., known more widely by its briefer title S.C.R., has just completed its first twenty years of activity and has issued a concise and very interesting report on its work during the period. It is difficult now to recapture the atmosphere of 1924, when the sufferings caused by the Revolution and the Civil War were still fresh in people's minds, and only relatively few recognized the importance of trying to understand what was going on in Russia and of breaking down the barriers that threatened to isolate that country from the Western world. A small but distinguished group of people founded the Society and organized an exhibition of Soviet art, books and magazines; a Science Section was formed under the chairmanship of Sir Richard Gregory and a Press Committee of British and Russian journalists met. Later, various other sections were formed and the Society steadily increased in membership. Each year has seen new developments, and since the War both the status and the influence of the Society have been heightened; it has been recognized that only by keeping exclusively to the one purpose of fostering cultural relations can the Society hope to make a wide appeal. It now has a good library and a panel of lecturers, and it is prepared to deal with inquiries coming within its ambit. We wish the Society continued success in the important and difficult tasks that will confront it in the post-war years.
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The Society for Cultural Relations. Nature 154, 141–142 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154141b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154141b0