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DURING last summer, in the early stages of the Battle of Britain, the Prime Minister was reviewing the first year of the War and spoke in homely terms of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, having “to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage” ; some time earlier, a manifesto issued on behalf of American men of science, like an earlier resolution of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, had frankly recognized the relation of science to freedom of thought and speech under democratic institutions, and the need for men of science to draw closer together in defence of democracy. The offer of naval bases to the United States, which prompted Mr. Churchill's reference, was only a stage in the development of the association of interests for common purposes between Great Britain and the United States which had already commenced before the War, and which has recently been further recognized by. the request from the American Association for the Advancement of Science to the British Association for collaboration in the formulation of an international charter of democracy (see NATURE, April 12, p. 448).
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Anglo-American Collaboration for Democracy. Nature 147, 517–519 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147517a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147517a0