Encroaching Political Developments

In Paris, besides the scientific exchanges, there were also sharp political discussions in which some democratic scientists protested against the political opinions of their colleagues from totalitarian states. After his return to Italy, Bonino replied with a reference to these tensions in the pages of the regime scientific review journal La Chimica e l lndustria. There he characterized the protests as an inopportune disharmony without real purpose. Moreover, he emphasized that the direction modern scientific collaboration was taking at the international level, reflected the 

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