The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-16
NOTED Foreign
SCIENHSTsAT
SOvIETACADEMY
Huge Gathering at the
BicentenGry
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WASHINGTON, russian Informa-
ton Bureau.)-A governmental COM
mission at LenInerad made arrange
ments for the ceIsprations in connec-
ton with the bl,ckntenary of the Rus
sian Academy Of Sciences. The COM
mission was headed by M. Gorbunov,
chief clerk Of the Council Of Peoples
commissary Of u, s. S. r. The first
meeting Of the commission at Lenln-
grad took place with the partIcipa-
ton of the aeadeAicans Staklov and
oldenbure and public officials.
Gorbunov. in an interview with a
press correspondent, said:
"The Soviet government has issued
decree proclaiming the bi-centenary
of the Academy Of Sciences a festi-
val for the whole Of the Union, in view
of the tremendous scientific import
ance of the academy. Guests had been
invited from the leading scientific in
situations of the world and over 600
invitations had been sent out to Eu-
rope, America and Asia. The arrival
was expected of not less than $50
foreign scientists. More than 1000
representatives of scientific institu-
tions in U. s. S. r. would take part.
Among the world-known scientists
who signified their desire to take part
in the celebrations are Flang, the
physicist, the permanent secretary of
the Prussian Academy of Sciences;
Keynes, one of the leading econo-
mists of England; Prof. Levicovitz,
francesca Savelli, rector of the Uni
versity of Rome, and many others
The festivities began at Leningrad
on September 5. An official commits
sion organized the festivities, headed
by NJ Rykov, with the participation
of Representatives of the Academy of
Sciences and also Lunacharsky, Cor
bunov, Milyutin, Bubnov, Litvinov,
Yevdokimev, Tsyperevitch and other
public men a5Aea
Maynard Keynes, who arrived with
his wife, the famous Russian dancer,
Lupokova, representing Cambridge
University, said to the Soviet press:
"A belt of fog has been separating
Russia from the rest of the world.
Both we and the Russians have been
losers. Russia has so much that is
unique and Characteristic to give to
the world, and at the same time. Rus
STA is to dependent. for progress on
the outside world, that this separation
has been one sOf the most. deplorable
things possible. i welcome the oc-
casion of the bi-centenary, because it
represents the, lifting of the fog belt
the first small tentative movement
toward the reunion of the Russian
mind with the International mind. The
occasion is happy one, because we
meet under the auspices of science,
which knows no frontiers nor politi-
cal parties. In this field, which lies
outside of morals, parties and conven-
tions, we can meet on a SAFE, neutral
ground and begin to feel the way by
personal contacts to a reunion of the
Russian soul as we'll as the Russian
mind with the soul and mind of the
rest of mankind.
when talked with the Soviet
Foreign Minister, Tchitcherin, and the
financial expert, Preobrajenski, at the
Genoa conference, foretold that Rus
sian money would be stabilized soon
ed than in any of the other countries
of Europe. Now / say that if Russia
has good harvests coming two years
in succession her wealth will be great
er than the greatest credit she might
obtain abroad"