WORLD USES OF SCIENCE
MR ATTLEE SPEAKS AT CONGRESS (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 24. The problem of the modem world was not so much to make advances in science, but how to secure a world in which those advances could be made with safety, said the Prime Minister (Mr Attlee) at a dinner in London. The dinner was the concluding function of the eleventh International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Science, he said, could flourish only in an atmosphere of freedom, where men and wroien could say what they would. Chemjsts were needed to-day for the reconstruction and betterment of the world, and he hoped that never again would chemists be diverted from their beneficent work to destructive purposes which might wreck civilisation. In chemistry, the same invention that could destroy life could also save it
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25245, 25 July 1947, Page 7
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