Nature and the War

Abstract

UNDER the title “An American Message”, we publish on p. 329 of this issue a complimentary note from the managing editor, associate editor and staff of the Bell Laboratories Record, the monthly journal of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. These Laboratories, which form one of the largest industrial research centres in the world, are well known to physicists and engineers for their research on electronic physics, chemistry, magnetism, optics, radio, applied mathematics, speech and hearing, and generation and modulation of electrical currents. Such a communication is very encouraging, and no doubt British readers will receive it with pleasure. This American message is merely a reflexion of the main body of opinion in the United States, finally endorsed by the signing of the Lease and Lend Bill by President Roosevelt on March 11, after it had been approved by the House of Representatives by the overwhelming majority of 317 to 71.