PROFESSOR J. D. BERNAL
POSITION IN BRITISH SCIENTIFIC BODY NOT RE-ELECTED TO COUNCIL (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 5. The council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science decided yesterday not to re-elect Professor J. D. Bernal to the council. The council stated that it objected to the opinion which Professor Bernal expressed in a speech in Moscow last August. Dr. Bernal, who is Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, London, went to Moscow for a conference of the Soviet Partisans for Peace. In his speech to the conference he was reported as saying that Russia had won the war in Europe and would have won the Japanese war. He was also quoted as saying that in capitalist countries the direction of science was in the hands of those who hated peace and whose only aim was to destroy and torture the people so that their own profits might be secured for some years longer.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25954, 7 November 1949, Page 7
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