| Description | 'Isolated as I am here in the North, there are few opportunities of talking with my London colleagues, but it is certain that they share my views on the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. Scientific workers of all grades are aparently either being dismissed from their posts or advised to resign, if they have any Jewish blood in their veins. I don't know if Freundlich or Polanyi are Jewish, but yesterday's Times announces their resignations. I have had a few letters fromn Neuberg, to whom we intend to give an LLD in June. He is very guarded, but one can read behind the lines, and it is doubtful if he will be able to leave Germany to come here. It is a sad thought that men who have been the glory of German Science should suffer from Nazi barbarism.
I write you in the hope that ithe Royal Society may be able to take some action. I can realise how difficult this might be, but after all, the present Government of Germany shiould know our feelings, and how their actions have alienated the sympathy of so many of us like myself who have striven since the war to restore cordial relationships with our former Enemies. ' |