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THE menace to freedom of thought and learning not merely in Europe but throughout the world has grown unmistakably graver with the latest advances of ruthless aggression. In Belgium and Holland pitiless destruction is spreading in countries which possess traditions representing even more richly than German history the most colourful, creative and imaginative phases of European life. To the lengthy list of centres of learning where creative thought and independent inquiry and research have already been proscribed there are now to be added such names as Brussels, Leyden, Louvain.
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“This Freedom”. Nature 145, 833–835 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145833a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145833a0