THE SOVIET MASTER RECE THEORY
Muller, H. S.
Washington and the Nation Debate on Arms Program May Force Aid to China By JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON. D. C. THE STRUGGLE OVER THE PRESIDENT'S military aid program is certain to be long and...
...Although there are some importan differences between Nazi and Communist views, both pervert genetics ii such a way as to make inevitable th» conclusion that the races and classe of mankind today are arranged ir hereditary hierachies corresponding to the economic hierarchies...
...who has generally supported the Administration, on this issue lines up with the other Far Western Senators, who are almost unanimous in their criticism of our China policy...
...transferred at birth from one grou to another, its inborn biological handi cap or advantage could not be car celled in its generation...
...In a word, we shouli have innate master and subject race and classes, as the Nazis so blatant 13 insisted...
...Aware that critics of our China policy would make their big fight when the Arms Aid Bill was introduced, the Administration was forced to delay the bill's introduction nearly three weeks, until the State Department could issue the White Paper...
...Modern geneticists, realizing the trt mendous role physical and social ei vironment play in the development 1 human mental traits, would not a; sume that culturally or economical...
...It create conditions where men rise by intrigu and denunciations of others, rathe than by merit...
...The Lygenko-Present doctrine therefore implies a mystical perfecting-principle...
...In 1935, genetics had reached a very high state of advancement in the USSR...
...The Atlantic Pact debate, which covered the subject thoroughly in its first week, was encouraged to drag itself out for two and a half weeks...
...The economy bloc will seek to cut drastically the appropriation asked by Mr...
...The President's message to Congress Monday asked for an appropriation of $1,300,000,000 worth of military equipment for the Western European members of the Atlantic Pact, and $320,000,000 worth of military equipment for Greece, Turkey, Korea, Iran and the Philippines...
...It received an official protest from the Chinese Government, through Ambassador Wellington Koo, and was also blasted by Pat McCarran of Nevada and other Senators, all of whom de* manded that the State Department refrain from publishing the White Paper at this time...
...In the official view, individuals or populations which have lived under unfavorable conditions and have therefore been physically or mentally stunted in their development, would tend, through the inheritance of these acquired characteristics, to pass on to successive generations an ever poorer hereditary endowment...
...And afterwards, President Truman asked anotrler three-day delay before sending his message to Congress...
...And a group consisting of the isolationists and communist*—an alliance which was quite familiar here between 1939 and 1941—will fight the entire program...
...Chrome being banned Won't make me bitter...
...As this militant mysticism spreads, it is certain to have dire repercussions on every branch of intellectual activity within the USSR and the countries in its orbit...
...When we criticize the Soviet attac' on science, let us not neglect th motes in our own eyes, nor the lasso it holds for our own practices...
...It shows wh> they expunged all mention of ma from the published proceedings o their 1936 "genetics controversy...
...Nearly a year ago, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union officially repudiated the entire science of genetics, and approved in its stead a group of superstitions that hark back to ancient times...
...They would have heredity itself respond in a directly adaptive way to outside influences, and would also have it able to incorporate the directly adaptive changes which the body may have undergone in its development...
...Liberal Senator Wayne Morse (R., Ore...
...Descriptive, pungent, to be priced...
...Moieover, there was conflict within the State Department and between the Defense Department and the State Department over what should go into the White Paper and how it should be worded...
...less-developed people* are, ipso fact* inherently less capable...
...Lightly waving away the amassed evidence for the gene theory, Lysenko and Present offer, in the name of Darwin, a return to pre-Darwinian days that had been forgotten by modern biologists...
...Believing that it has found th complete answer to all the world' ills, through its particular way o manipulating environment, the Com munist party regards as a menace an...
...But will ha got an edueationl Rlchard Armour The Sovios Master Raco Theory By H. S. MULLER Nobtl Prize Winner...
...It is based on no properly documented, controlled, or repeatable factual evidence...
...concept that does not fit patly into it...
...THIS SIMILARITY between Na and Communist theories was, < course, the reason why the Russian were reluctant to allow Western ge neticists to come to the 1937 Inter national Genetics Congress to attack the Nazi racial fallacies...
...While they have nothing else in common, the economy bloc and the isolationists will join the China critics and thus fight the Administration on three different levels...
...RIGHT SPOT Russia Bans Sale of Chrome to U.S...
...For I could stand A bit less glitter...
...its cardinal need is freedom of inquiry and of criticism...
...What causes the Communist official to push Lysenkolsm so strongly...
...THE STATE DEPARTMENT White Paper will play a basic role in the Senate debate...
...A word to add to dictionaries...
...WELL RID The Congressman who wasats to look At every school and callage book Affd judge its falsity or truth And measure its effect oa youth May serve or not the troubled nation...
...Communist organization has created conditions inimical to free-thought processes...
...Qualified observers on Capitol Hill believe that the arms aid fight will result in a moderate cutting down of the sums asked by the President and the allocation of a share in the total to China...
...Critic* of our present China poller will try to include China in the arms aid program...
...Thesauruses, vocabularies— While hoping, with no little heat...
...Th answer is obvious: it ia the type o mind that sees things as only blac or white, and so cannot admit the im portance of both heredity and environ ment...
...D. C. THE STRUGGLE OVER THE PRESIDENT'S military aid program is certain to be long and confusing, for the battle lines will be formed to a great extent on the basis of approval or opposition to the Administration's policy on China...
...Ptojmor of Zoology, Indiana Vnivtrtity THE DEtmroCTION of science in the USSR is a tragedy of the greatest ataftfkance...
...The State Department had its own troubles in producing that document...
...It explains why the Communists did not want to allow any discussions concerning man —or even evolution in general—to be held at that Congress...
...for by political and official fiat it has brutally attacked the very foundation of human knowledge...
...Truman...
...To see the day it's obsolete...
...OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS to the Administration's China policy is formidable...
...The American Federation of Labor, while staunchly supporting the Administration on other issues, opposes it on China...
...Meanwhile, the White House and Congressional leaders marked time...
...Neumpmper headline...
...This amazing act is of the greatest significance for everyone...
...Science, a tender plant requiring special soil, is easily destroyed by outside inteference...
...always be improved...
...THE LYISNKO DOCnUNE has had a profound effect on the Communiat conception of the nature of roan, and of racial and class differences...
...While the House Foreign Affairs Committee has already begun to consider the aid program, the real fireworks are not expected until the Senate hearings begin...
...What has recently happened to genetics in the USSR is only the dramatic culmination of a campaign which has been ruthlessly waged against this section of science, and the workers engaged in it, for more than a dozen years...
...Th effect of the Scopes evolution trial irt Tennaasee, in the lBWa, has laid basis for a popular mlsunderttandin...
...on the other hand, those living under favorable conditions would produce progressively better germ cells and so become innately superior...
...It has been accomplished by the use of the tame , combination of flagrant misrepresentation and calculated brutality which has marked the treatment of any political opposition...
...which has prevented research in bio ¦ logical fundamentals from ipjntvtn adequate support Bui ao k*« « po Uttcal democracy exists, mmmm ca...
...ORBITUARY "We arc not in the Soiiiet orbit, we are not satellized," said M. Kosanovitch, the Yugoslav ambassador...
...Such pyramidal constructions place a premium on subservient to those above, and on arbitrary domi neering over those below...
...This word for conquest, "satellised...
...This document, essentially a justification of our Chinese policy to date, has already caused the Administration much internal pain...
...scheme of mankind...
...From this it would follow that, if a child wer...
...In that very year, Trofim Lysenko, a plant-breeder, and I. Present, a philosopher, offered themselves as tools of the Soviet politicians who for some strange reason found the genetic theory of inheritance a threat to the state...
Vol. 32 • July 1949 • No. 31
