"My distinguished colleague, Henry Norris Russell [said] that until last year he concluded that [the world] looked like Bedlam. In view of recent events he now concludes that it looks like Hell, with only one difference in favor of Satan's domain. In Hell at least there is no shedding of innocent blood. . . . Science, humanity have already suffered too much through suppression of freedom of inquiry to make any policy of appeasement possible. ... On that issue we hereby declare war."
Thus to some 3,000 of the smartest people in the U. S. spoke Princeton's Dean Christian Gauss in Manhattan...
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