WAR'S TOLL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 9

WAR'S TOLL.

THE REALM OF SCIENCE

Plight In Over-Run Countries " Appalling.*' 1 nit' 4 '? Prrps Ass/»ciatjen (Recd. in a.m.) NK\V YORK. Mar. 21. The war.- i<•! 1 in terms of was irivon in detail to-dav in the annual rcjx.rt- ..f llio Kockcfcller P omnia! ion. which i-oniplaincd that ni t ho shadows that arc deepening over Kim.jx* the li-hts of learning arc fading nno iiv one. Tli,. prc-ident. Mr. Hay none! It. J-o-.li.k. de»cril»ed the I«3i<rhl of uui\cr«*it ]"<•«* and scholars in count rk*> o\crrun by (,>rmanv and Kuf-sia aa]»|*allin*_r and Tvjw.rtcd that the war had forced Iho foundat imi to c]«wr it < Parii»> malaria research in Kjjyjrf. sanitary engineering o\jwrimont > in I in key. >-arlct fever -Indie-* in Kumania and it - influenza ro-oar«h in Hunzarv. while t lie Shanghai office had to he transferred to Manila. To «it hy and watch the ancr or decadence, or worse, the per\<Mr»ioTi of of learning which in earlier and hotter years they were pri\ilejred to assist is not an easv assignment,*' Mr. Fuxiick said-

"It is oven more difficult to sec brilliant men with whose work we are associated now driven Trom the posts for which they wore trained. Some of 4.hom ara fugitives. pome are in concentration camps, and many of them are separated fr<im their families."* Mr. Fosdick added: "As Rerroan forces occupied one countrv after anotlier they followed a pattern with fii st permit tin? them to continue teaching under German supervision. then enforcing a culture programme on them. In Czechoslovakia. Poland. Holland, Norway. Belgium and Paris. he raid, "repression of •scholastic freedom took the form of arrest s. deportations and oven the breaking 'up of demonstrations with machinc-guns and tanks. "Similar conditions prevailed in tin Baltic States scixcd by Russia, when many professors disappeared or wenimprisoned." Mr. Fosdick Raid the RockefelhFoundation spent nearlv IO.OOO.Oitn dollars in lf»40 in the fields of public health, natural science, social science, medical .science and humanities.