GERMAN SPIRIT
IN SCIENCE AND STATECRAFT.
“No one action can more clearly reveal the present German spirit than the replacement at Heidelberg University of the inscription, ‘To the livmg spirit’ by ‘To the German spirit.' This German spirit makes German scientists slaves of the regime, and opposed to all that science represents. That spirit must be overcome,” said the Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, in addressing the British Association. “We have called on scientists in the cause for which we are fighting. We shall need them no less in the cause for which we are working in peace. The advent of the machine has brought groat material gain, but it has brought its terrors also. It has brought | astonishing material advantages to. many, but it has led to inequalities, to much selfishness, / to unfair division, and to materialism. If after the war we are to remove the fear of wants as well as of war, science and statecraft must work together. In war-time diplomacy is the servant of strategy. In peace-time'! pray that it may be the servant of science.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1942, Page 4
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