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THE recent changes in the membership of the Cabinet, coming as they did on the same day as the announcement of the appointment of a Scientific Advisory Committee responsible to the Lord President of the Council (see page 485 of this issue), will probably have overshadowed in the public mind the significance of this Committee. A scrutiny of the terms of reference, and consideration of the qualifications and standing of its members, however, will bring the realization that in this Committee we have a means of putting science into direct contact with the innermost councils of the Empire. How much this may mean for the outcome of the present conflict, and beyond that, will depend on the speed with which the Committee pursues its inquiries, the vigour with which it urges its conclusions on the Government, and a receptive mind on the part of the leaders of the country.
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Science and the National War Effort. Nature 146, 469–470 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146469a0
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