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...Moscow he met a zoo director with a long Santa Claus beard, who showed him a cage containing not only animals but two pretty girls. This, said the director, was meant "to illustrate the oneness of all living things." Eckstein went to Japan to write a biography of Japanese Scientist Hideyo Noguchi. He also noted that Japan smells of excrement, as Norway smells of rotten fish and southern France of urine...
Stubborn, jut-jawed Veniamin Veis, whose father works in a Soviet fishery, is no scientist, but he too dreams big dreams for himself and Russia. "I want to give all my strength to the victory of Communism," writes Veniamin. "Consequently I want to become a diplomat. I can imagine myself defending the interests of the Soviet Union. I want to be like Molotov. But to become a diplomat of the Molotov type, one must study...
...Give a scientist a problem, any problem, and he is happy. During the war it was the problem of killing people in greater numbers than ever before. The scientists . . . came up with schemes that military men never dreamed...
...Scientists," writes "One of Them," "are the mercenaries of modern warfare. Almost wholly devoid of humanitarian impulses, they consider their cold and analytical search for scientific knowledge more important than any current affairs of mere mortals. If a scientist is given a chance to pursue his line of research unmolested, he doesn't care about the type of government he is working under, or the condition of the people, or anything else. Science is the thing, not people...
...author, who signs himself "One of Them," claims to be a scientist who has worked on a military project...