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IN NATURE of July 19, p. 79, brief reference was made to a broadcast from Moscow by Prof. P, Kapitza, which was addressed particularly to scientific workers in Great Britain. Prof. Vladimir Vernadsky, a veteran mineralogist and member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., also broadcast a message. These friendly gestures brought a reply from Prof. A. V. Hill, one of the secretaries of the Royal Society, who broadcast greetings to Russian colleagues and a reply to Prof. Kapitza in the European News sent out by the B.B.C. at midnight on July 14. Since then the Royal Society has dispatched the following cable: “President and Council of Royal Society London send greetings of Royal Society to National Academy of Sciences of U.S.S.R. Moscow. Our countries stand firm as partners in struggle against wanton aggression and our united efforts will ensure that the future of science is not endangered by destruction of those freedoms in which has thrived the work of the great scientists of both our countries enshrined in records of past and achievements of present. In the struggle science has already made and will continue to make essential contributions to victory.”
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Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. Nature 148, 135–136 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148135c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148135c0