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...representative of a company called Careers Inc., and a recruiter of talent for some 67 U.S. corporations. His hostile reception by the British is a measure of their concern over the loss of scientific and technical talent to the U.S., summed up fortnight ago by Minister of Science Viscount Hailsham, who charged the U.S. with living "parasitically on other people's brains...
Eager to Go. Hailsham has a right to worry about the brain drain. Skilled people anywhere feel the pull of the U.S., but most noticeably in England. Every year 60 science Ph.D.s-about 7% of England's total crop-leave for the U.S. Of ten research students in theoretical physics finishing up doctorates at Cambridge this spring, seven are going to the U.S. Birmingham Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley...
Pastoral Scenes. British businessmen generally disapproved of Hailsham's waspish outburst, with its anti-American overtones. Hailsham thought that scientists should "still owe some responsibility" to the country where they were born and educated, rather than "make up for the deficiencies of the American high schools-to which, incidentally, they condemn their own offspring if they stay away too long." Businessmen are beginning to realize that U.S. recruiting is only part of the problem, and that there is a need for British business to do more about facilities, opportunities and pay. So far, however, the most spectacular program...
Irritating as it might be, it was an idea with some force. So sympathetic a transatlantic figure as Britain's Viscount Hailsham, speaking in Manhattan fortnight ago, gently warned President Kennedy not to think that he is the "commander in chief of the forces of the free world...
...fact, said Lord Hailsham. "this is precisely what he is not if the allies to which he is bound are not to be deprived of the very independence for which they are prepared to unite...