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CHICAGO, February 26 (Special to the Harvard Service News)--Pleading for unhampered research by American scientists in the field of atomic physics, Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, told a mass meeting of the Midwest Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions in Orchestra Hall last night that military control of atomic developments will serve only to "estrange the Russians...
...Shapley vigorously supported passage of the McMahon Bill, now pigeonholed in a Senate committee, which provides for an immediate civilian commission to direct application of atomic energy discoveries in the United States. An expert on the international state of science who visited Russia last year on the 220th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, he said that "science rides high in Russia," and that "we must accept the challenge of the USSR--we the people, the government, the scientists of America must be the leaders in service to mankind through science...
Specifically assailing the present gagging of distinguished American scientists and the innuendoes from military sources that men of science cannot be trusted with matters of real secrecy. Shapley pointed to a recent radio broadcast of his in which he was required to submit his manuscript for censorship...
...Shapley joined in the appeal with Har- old C. Urey, noted University of Chicago chemist and a leader in the Manhattan Project, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Congresswoman from California, and Norman Corwin, radio writer whose "Set Your Clock at U-235" has forcefully dramatized the menace of atomic destruction. His address, liberally gingered with the Shapley wit, drew a tremendous ovation...
...delegation, headed by Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Nobelman Irving Langmuir, found much of Russia's scientific equipment destroyed by war. Though the Russians and the visiting scientists politely avoided prying into each other's war research, it was obvious that the Russians had been in no position to match the vast U.S. work on the atomic bomb. Yet Physicist Langmuir thought that in less than ten years the U.S.S.R. would certainly be able to carry out a "Manhattan Project...