AMERICAN RESEARCH

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31596, 6 February 1968, Page 13

AMERICAN RESEARCH

Appeal From Scientists

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PARIS, Feb. 5. More than 400 French and Japanese university scientists today appealed to their American counterparts to stop research into chemical and biological weapons for use in Vietnam.

The 428 signatories of the appeal included four winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Quoting an article in a New York magazine, they said many American universities were working directly for the Vietnam war, some of them “taking part in chemical experiments on napalm, phosphorus bombs, i toxic gasses and herbicides uhed for defoliation, and others in bacteriological experiments intended for use in. war.” This the scientists described as “a grave violation of professional ethics.” “The continuance of these experiments will inevitably lead a certain number of scholars and universities throughout the world to break off their relations with some American universities,” the appeal went on. “This would be the ruin of international scientific exchanges which, for all of us, are the very source of progress.”