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Washington has sized up Dr. Conant not only as a natural leader but a man of determination and a great conviction: he believes that World War II is a war between democratic and Axis scientists and that the survival of science itself is at stake. Challenges he: "Progress in science has been made by the unusual person, the unorthodox individual. He cannot survive a regimented social order. It seems to me illogical for a scientist to be even quietly resigned to the possibility of a highly organized paternalistic state."