The role of science and technology from the house research to the identification and exploration of the mineral assets is highly commendable. As a short lived measure the Nationwide Academy of Sciences has established the Analysis Board for National Security on the request of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy. This has all the time been true and is likely to stay so. Hence Government, like industry, depends on the colleges, universities, and analysis institutes to develop the fundamental scientific frontiers and to furnish educated scientific investigators.

That is extremely desirable so that there may be no interruption in the relations between scientists and army men after the emergency wartime Office of Scientific Analysis and Development goes out of existence. Know-how is the usage of scientific knowledge to create new things. In the case of the Office of Scientific Research and Improvement, preparations have been made for the preparation of manuscripts, while the staffs below our control are still assembled and in possession of the records, as quickly as the stress for manufacturing of results for this struggle has begun to chill out.

With some notable exceptions, most analysis in industry and Authorities involves utility of …