Dr, Rabi went on to say that the policy as expressed seemed satis—
factory, but that the applications of the policy had left something to be
desired. He then quoted from a letter which Dr. Goudemit of BNL had
written to express his personal view on the situation,
In this letter
Dr, Goudsmit referred to the great benefits, to the laboratories and to .
the AEC, of having foreigners participate in the unclassified research
programs; and he drew attention to difficulties which had been experienced
in making arrangements with the AEC for such participation.
The diffi-
culties were in the nature of refusals in some cases, but were predom:nantly that the AEC delayed its answers to requests for approval for very
extended periods of time.
General Manager.
Dr. Rabi had given a copy of the letter to the
Brookhaven had had a number of requests pending for
months for permission for aliens to engage in unclassified work (in most
cases without compensation, and on a temporary basis),
No word at all
had been received, Dr. Wigner said that requests should certainly not go
unanswered for six months, and he felt the GAC should go on record to
that effect,
(Appendix C, item 3d)
The next subject considered was the House cut in the FY55 budget of
GAC
Statement
on
the Research Division.
Dr. Warner had prepared a statement on this
- subject, which was read to the Committee.
This statement was adopted ky
Research
Bucget
the Committee as an expression of its position,
After some slight sub-.
sequent modifications, the statement read as follows,
"The GAC is seriously concerned over the disadvantage to
the AEG program of the prospective cut in the budget
requested by the Commission for support of basic research,
gat
.