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...sort of understanding of Beria, the new kind of policeman whose beat runs around the world, the citizens of democracy, where his type is unknown, must look into his antecedents...
...could pull it out at any time-as he had, in effect, after running second to Tom Dewey in Wisconsin's 1944 primary. Even more important was the fact that General MacArthur has not been in the U.S. for almost eleven years. To many Americans he is almost unknown except as a legendary military man who had been one of the great captains of World War II, who had ruled the conquered Japanese, most of his countrymen assumed, with justice and magnanimity. If this remoteness was a political handicap, it was also a potential asset which could be realized...
...California admitted last week (after too many garbled rumors in the press) that it had created the first man-made meson. U.C. did it with its 4,000-ton cyclotron. The news caused a sizable flurry throughout the world of physics-for mesons are closely connected with the unknown force that holds matter together...
...papers if it had." Not now, perhaps. But mesons are intimately concerned with the way that matter turns into energy and vice versa. They are not believed to exist already formed in a normal nucleus, but are created somehow when an energetic particle smashes into the unknown but enormously powerful field of force that holds the nucleus together. Study of mesons may tell what this force is. The next step (in the usual sequence of things) may be control of the force. This may lead in the direction of a vastly better source of atomic energy than the fission...
Explaining his plan, Romer pointed out that "field study raises a variety of interesting problems, generally unknown to the laboratory biologists but worthy of cooperative pursuit into the laboratory...