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SCIENCE In addition to the above, the congress ]nay designate of Soviet Russia froiii ninety-three Anxerican mathe- honorary members. maticians. An answer from htoscow dntecl October 7 The agenda consists of an aruple coverage of .r arious has been received. It reads: topics under eight heads as follows : Mining, Geology, Fncls, Ore Dressing and Ore Concentration, Rlettzl- lurgy, Nitrate, Mining Yolic?~, Legislation and Econ- only and Mining Education. The proceedings of the congress will be condncted in Spanish. English and Portugaese, and interpreters mill be niacle available to the nlembcrs. Varions tours will be arranged, which will take the members through the most interesting mining regions of Chile. The Embassy of Chilc in WashingLon, D. C., will furnish aciditional information upon request. THE ATTACK ON THE CITY COLLEGE SYSTEM OF NEW PORK CITY Dlt. T ~ T z i l ~ ~ ~ ~ chairman of the ~,~uTENsT~~~UCH, New Yorli Ilmnch of the Bnierican Association of Scientific lvorkers, has sent to SCIENCE copy a of re.olutions passed by the branch on the situation in the colleges of the City of Ke~v Work, the fillst and liist of w211cl.1 read : The New 3Tork Branch of the American Association of Scientific Workers has observed with deep misgivings t l ~ c situation arising out of the proceedings of the Board of I-Iigl~er Eduration, following the investigations by the Rapp-Cou(1crt Committee of so-called subversive activities in tlle New York City Colleg~s. The evidence available points to the dismaying conclusion that the recornmendtl- tions of tlie board, based on the committee's alleged findings, negate the fundamental civil and legal rights of tlie accused, and by tending to suppress freedom of thought and expression of both students and teachers, undermine the morale and seriously impair the educational effectiveness of the City Colleges. In the light of these circumstances the members of the New York l3ianch of the American Association of Scien- tific Workers, as citizens concerned with the preservation of our democratic institutions, vigorously protest against the actions of the Board of Higher Education affecting the accused teachers and administrative rvorlrers of the City Collegcs. As scicntists, moreover, cherishing those conditions of free inciuiry and adherence to objective fact so indispensable to the life of science, we are profo~indly alarmed by the evidence of bias and unfairness, indeed of inquisitorial methods, in the hearings of the Rapp Coudett Committee, which furnished the so called evidence upon XT-11ich the board actc~d. JQe co~lsiderit impcrativo that the Board of Higher Eductttion rcconsidcr its actions in this matter, and reinstate with full back pay all accused individuals pendilig fair and open hearings on the valid- ity of the charges against them. GREETINGS OF SOVIET MATHEMATICIANS TO AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS TI~RC for Oc- was printed in the issue of SCIKXCIC tobcr 10 a letter of greetings sent to mathematicians Your splendid mersage, dear colleagues, found wide response in the hearts of the scientists of our country. We read it with feelings of all the more appreciatioll and satisfaction in that it again emphasized the corn- niunity of thoughts and the friendly tits bctween the mathematicians of the USA and tho USSR. Many years we jointly ~vorhedwith you on the development of our science, many of our American collcagues were our mel- comed guests, while x~itll a still greater number of Amcr- ican sci~ntists we conduct friendly seicntific eorrespon- dence. This mutual cooperation Tvas very fruitful and Icd to a nunlber of impoltaiit scientific discoreries. In recent years our countly became the center of grav- ity for eminent European lnatllematiuians who were forced to flee the lands dovntrodden by the hell of Nazi barbarians. Our eountry, too, is sub,jected to the insasion of these gloorny medieval forces. The Hitlerites seek to smash the CBSR in order to afterwards make their forces avail- able for also destroying your great country. The fight now being waged by our people is the fight for the prog- re% of all mankind, for everything adranced, the fight for the flourishing of civilization and of scaience. Our science, too, has been placed at the service of our country for tlle destruction of Nazism. Soviet mathe- maticrsns, like all Soxiet scientists, partic~patcin this fight in common with the whole people. This struggle of Soviet scientists is tlio common cause of the scientists of all democracies, against the fiend who shoots children, burns libraries, smashes universities and destroys science. On this niomentous day your message, dear friends, has been recei>eciby ns as the proof of the unity of Soviet and American scientists an6 their determination to fight the txventieth century vandals ti11 the end. Let the friendship of the So~iet and the American scientists be the suletg of the friendship of our great nations, the surety of the victory of democracy over the dark forces of Hitlerism. Among the sixty-fonr are: A. Sobelev, director of the Steblov Rlathe~~latieal Institute of the Acaderny of Sciences, USSR; P. Alexandrov, president of the i\rosco~v Rlatlien~atiaal Society, and corresponding rnen11)ers of the Academy of Sciences, USSR, the Ukrainian Acaderrty, professors and readers of the IJniversities at &Ioscow, Leningrad, ICiev, Odessa, Raetln, Tomslc, and professors in various other insti- tutes. PRIORITY RATING GIVEN TO RESEARCH LABORATORIES TIIE substance of a ruling from the Office of Pro- dnction &lanagenlent is given in the Bulletin of the Focietr for Testing Rlaterials. i2ttention is called to

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SCIENCE

I n addition to the above, the congress ]nay designate of Soviet Russia froiii ninety-three Anxerican mathe-

honorary members. maticians. An answer from htoscow dntecl October 7 The agenda consists of a n aruple coverage of .r arious has been received. It reads:

topics under eight heads as follows : Mining, Geology, Fncls, Ore Dressing and Ore Concentration, Rlettzl-lurgy, Nitrate, Mining Yolic?~, Legislation and Econ- only and Mining Education.

The proceedings of the congress will be condncted in Spanish. English and Portugaese, and interpreters mill be niacle available to the nlembcrs. Varions tours

will be arranged, which will take the members through the most interesting mining regions of Chile. The

Embassy of Chilc in WashingLon, D. C., will furnish aciditional information upon request.

T H E ATTACK O N T H E C I T Y C O L L E G E SYSTEM O F N E W P O R K C I T Y

Dlt. T ~ T z i l ~ ~ ~ ~ chairman of the~ , ~ u T E N s T ~ ~ ~ U C H ,

New Yorli Ilmnch of the Bnierican Association of Scientific lvorkers, has sent to SCIENCE copya of re.olutions passed by the branch on the situation in the colleges of the City of K e ~ v Work, the fillst and liist of w211cl.1 read :

The New 3Tork Branch of the American Association of Scientific Workers has observed with deep misgivings t l ~ c situation arising out of the proceedings of the Board of I-Iigl~er Eduration, following the investigations by the Rapp-Cou(1crt Committee of so-called subversive activities in tlle New York City Colleg~s. The evidence available points to the dismaying conclusion that the recornmendtl- tions of tlie board, based on the committee's alleged findings, negate the fundamental civil and legal rights of tlie accused, and by tending to suppress freedom of thought and expression of both students and teachers, undermine the morale and seriously impair the educational effectiveness of the City Colleges.

In the light of these circumstances the members of the New York l3ianch of the American Association of Scien- tific Workers, as citizens concerned with the preservation of our democratic institutions, vigorously protest against the actions of the Board of Higher Education affecting the accused teachers and administrative rvorlrers of the City Collegcs. As scicntists, moreover, cherishing those conditions of free inciuiry and adherence to objective fact so indispensable to the life of science, we are profo~indly alarmed by the evidence of bias and unfairness, indeed of inquisitorial methods, in the hearings of the Rapp Coudett Committee, which furnished the so called evidence upon XT-11ichthe board actc~d. JQe co~lsider it impcrativo that the Board of Higher Eductttion rcconsidcr its actions in this matter, and reinstate with full back pay all accused individuals pendilig fair and open hearings on the valid- ity of the charges against them.

GREETINGS O F S O V I E T MATHEMATICIANS T O AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS

T I ~ R C for Oc- was printed i n the issue of SCIKXCIC tobcr 10 a letter of greetings sent to mathematicians

Your splendid mersage, dear colleagues, found wide response in the hearts of the scientists of our country. We read i t with feelings of all the more appreciatioll and satisfaction in that it again emphasized the corn-niunity of thoughts and the friendly tits bctween the mathematicians of the USA and tho USSR. Many years we jointly ~vorhed with you on the development of our science, many of our American collcagues were our mel- comed guests, while x~itll a still greater number of Amcr- ican sci~ntists we conduct friendly seicntific eorrespon- dence. This mutual cooperation Tvas very fruitful and Icd to a nunlber of impoltaiit scientific discoreries.

In recent years our countly became the center of grav- ity for eminent European lnatllematiuians who were forced to flee the lands dovntrodden by the hell of Nazi barbarians.

Our eountry, too, is sub,jected to the insasion of these gloorny medieval forces. The Hitlerites seek to smash the CBSR in order to afterwards make their forces avail- able for also destroying your great country. The fight now being waged by our people is the fight for the prog- re% of all mankind, for everything adranced, the fight for the flourishing of civilization and of scaience.

Our science, too, has been placed at the service of our country for tlle destruction of Nazism. Soviet mathe- maticrsns, like all Soxiet scientists, partic~patc in this fight in common with the whole people. This struggle of Soviet scientists is tlio common cause of the scientists of all democracies, against the fiend who shoots children, burns libraries, smashes universities and destroys science.

On this niomentous day your message, dear friends, has been recei>eci by ns as the proof of the unity of Soviet and American scientists an6 their determination to fight the txventieth century vandals ti11 the end.

Let the friendship of the S o ~ i e t and the American scientists be the suletg of the friendship of our great nations, the surety of the victory of democracy over the dark forces of Hitlerism.

Among the sixty-fonr are: A. Sobelev, director of the Steblov Rlathe~~latieal Institute of the Acaderny

of Sciences, USSR; P. Alexandrov, president of the i\rosco~v Rlatlien~atiaal Society, and corresponding rnen11)ers of the Academy of Sciences, USSR, the Ukrainian Acaderrty, professors and readers of the IJniversities a t &Ioscow, Leningrad, ICiev, Odessa, Raetln, Tomslc, and professors i n various other insti- tutes.

P R I O R I T Y RATING G I V E N T O RESEARCH LABORATORIES

TIIE substance of a ruling from the Office of Pro- dnction &lanagenlent is given in the Bulletin of the Focietr fo r Testing Rlaterials. i2ttention is called to