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The chief task of the committee
4a to gather the information available,,
largely in the country of the committed:
member and see that it ie made available
to the UN and through that to the world.
This is a very appropriate time
for such a thing to be done because the
National Academy = Rockefeller Foundation
Committee= in which you had a hend, John -
4s going to have its report ready in all
probability in early April,
The Medical Research Council
in the UK has been studying the problem
independently but I keep °
in touch
with what is going on and if all goes well,
their report will be out in April so that
if the organizational meeting of this
committee 13 set up, it will not only have
the vast amount of raw data, the United
States will be able to contribute largely
from the atandpoint of a tremendous amount
of work.
You saw yesterday Mr, Elsenbdud's.
study but in addition there will be the
houg
pretty complete apvraisal of the value to
put on the scientific work done to date
in the biologic effects field both in this