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Show Scientists at Work On Defense Tasks Leaders as Well as Rank And File Secretly Busy. NEW YORK. Behind a screen of secrecy and self-censorship the scientists sci-entists of the United States, famous leaders as well as the rank and file, are engaged in supremely important tasks of national defense research about which they maintain complete silence. Several thousand scientific workers work-ers employed by the government, such as those in the laboratories of the bureau of standards, the army, navy, health and agriculture departments, depart-ments, are busy on specially assigned as-signed operations. But it is the unofficial scientists, particularly the physicists, chemists and various kinds of engineers, who are now in the highest positions of responsibility. However, they are all maintaining silence concerning what they are individually in-dividually and severally doing or about to do. Prof. Robert A. Millikan, president of the California Institute of Technology, Tech-nology, known to be among the leading lead-ing organizers of America's scientific scien-tific forces for defense, when requested re-quested to give a general statement on the subject, replied: "The work which the scientists are doing for national defense is so important im-portant and varied that a whole volume vol-ume would be needed to expound it. "Then, the very things that would interest the general public most are military secrets. They cannot be told." This tersely sums up the present situation: That a tremendously important im-portant but silent drama of research and invention and application of fundamental fun-damental sciences is going on throughout the United States to strengthen America's national defense. |