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(very much like that suggested by Mr. Barnard) which would “audit:
and certify” our findings and thereby back up the Administration’ Ss
statement of the facts. It would probably be better, i in his opinion, if
such a group ‘were not appointed as a commission by the President
because: it might. thereby be tarred. with the’ Administration’ S brush

in n the > eyes of the people. | .

 

Policy: Planning Staff Files fin

Record of the Mt. eeting of the State-De fonse Policy Review oro,
_ Department of State, Monday, March 20, 1950, 3 Pp.’ mM. . t0 5: 45 p.m.

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Present: _ Department of State =
Paul H. Nitze |
--R. Gordon Arneson
George Butler _
Carlton Savage _
Robert Tufts
_ Harry H. Schwartz oo
a Department of Defense its
~ Major General T. H. Landon.
Robert LeBaron -
- Najeeb. Halaby |

N ational Security. Council.
S. Everett Gleason —

- Consultant _ oo Meee ts
Dr. Ernest O.. ‘Lawrence ? 1 re,

Dr. Lawrence said he would address himself in the first i instance to
the difference in attitude between the working scientists as against
what he described « as the “talking” scientists. He said that a very small
percentage of the scientists did any public talking and that, in’ his
opinion, their views were not representative of the great mass of scien-
tists who did the work. He. said he read a great deal in the press to
the effect that secrecy and security regulations which: surround: the
atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb: developments: made it impossible
for scientists to work. He classified such reports as complete nonsense
and said that when he and a group of laboratory and plant. managers
were © mecting, informally. recently ir in a discussion of this subjec ect, ‘not

“}Nueléar Physicist: Director of ‘the Radiation Labatatory; Duivarstiy ‘of Cali-

fornia; inventor of the cyclotron; participant in the atomic bomb development
program during the Second World War.