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sible the contributions which have been made during our war effort to scientific 

 knowledge? 



The diffusion of such knowledge should help us stimulate new enterprises, 

 provide jobs for our returning servicemen and other workers, and make possible 

 great strides for the improvement of the national well-being. 



Second: With particular reference to the war of science against disease, what 

 can be done now to organize a program for continuing in the future the work 

 which has been done in medicine and related sciences? 



The fact that the annual deaths in this country from one or two diseases alone 

 are far in excess of the total number of lives lost by us in battle during this war 

 should make us conscious of the duty we owe future generations. 



Third: What can the Government do now and in the future to aid research 

 activities by public and private organizations? The proper roles of public and of 

 private research, and their interrelation, should be carefully considered. 



Fourth: Can an effective program be proposed for discovering and developing 

 scientific talent in American youth so that the continuing future of scientific 

 research in this country may be assured on a level comparable to what has been 

 done during the war? 



New frontiers of the mind are before us, and if they are pioneered with the 

 same vision, boldness, and drive with which we have waged this war, we can 

 create a fuller and more fruitful employment and a fuller and more fruitful life. 



Bush called upon four committees to assist him in preparing the re- 

 quested recommendations. The first question was referred to the OSRD 

 Committee on Publications, the others to special committees headed by 

 W. W. Palmer (Professor of Medicine, Columbia University), Isaiah Bow- 

 man (President, Johns Hopkins University), and Henry Allen Moe (Secre- 

 tary-General, John Simons Guggenheim Memorial Foundation), respec- 

 tively. Drawing upon the work of these committees. Bush submitted his 

 report on July 5, 1945. The report and the underlying committee reports 

 were published by the Government Printing Office under the title Science — 

 the Endless Frontier. It furnished the basis for one of the bills introduced 

 in Congress for the establishment of a National Research Foundation. 



Declassification 



Executive Order No. 9568 provided a machinery for declassification but 

 it did not exclude the possibility of OSRD working directly with the Army 

 and Navy for declassification when that seemed appropriate. Thus, in July 

 1945, the OSRD recommended to the Army and the Navy that declassi- 

 fication of OSRD reports be accomplished by broad fields of research with 

 attention being given where necessary to individual projects, contracts and 

 reports. 



By a memorandum of August 7, 1945, the divisions of NDRC were re- 

 quested to forward as promptly as possible their recommendations for de- 



