Professor Bernal To Be Excluded
LONDON, Nov. —The council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science decided today not to re-elect Professor J. D. Bernal to the council.
The council stated that it objected to an opinion on the direction and use of science in Britain which Professor Bernal expressed in a speech in Moscow last August. Professor Bernal. Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, London, went to Moscow for a conference of 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 people so that their own profits might be secured for some years longer.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 November 1949, Page 5
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