SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MICROBIOLOGY

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 1999
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• Publication Date: November 20, 1953
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SUBJECT: Sixth International Congress on Microbiology Supplement to: 25X1A
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1. I found the Rome meeting rather useless from a scientific. point of view and
25X1X I believe that other US scientists will agree with me. There was entirely
too much filler and too great a desire to present a vast program. We were
forced to listen to such. dissertationsas that of a representative from Ceylon
who spoke on the influence of the mind on bacteria growth -- and he did. it
with a straight face -25M
2. that the most outstanding papers
presented. were those by A Lwoff on lysogenicity and by L Cavalli-Sforza in
conjunction with a US scientist on the recombination of bacteria.
3. The USSR. sent six delegates to the Congress. They presented all their papers
in.Russian. All were on bacteria of genetics. At a reception I met two of the
Soviet delegates who told me that they were from University of Moscow and, that
bacteriological work there was carried out under the Dept. of Pathology. I
had only talked with them a few minutes when another Russian came up who
claimed to be an interpreter and who then proceeded to monopolize the conversa-
tion with descriptions of the Communist political system. The Soviet delegates
all stayed at the Hotel Plaza in Rome. I was told that Soviet delegates to
other international conferences have usually stayed in their embassy. I found
the Soviet delegates intelligent but superior in manner. Those I met spoke
English and German fluently.
4. Several satellite nations also sent delegates but because of the size of the
meeting I was unable to hear their papers. I was told., however, by other US
scientists that these papers were traditional, conservative and far from out-
standing. I heard one paper by a Yugoslav delegate, Milontine Djouricheth, who
spoke on drug action, in particular the influence of hydrazid of isonicotinic
acid alone and in combination with PAS and. streptomycin.. This paper was certainly
far from original or startling.
5. I noticed on the program that Stefan Slopek was one of the Polish delegates
25X1A to the Congress, representing the Polish Academy of Sciences. I believe this
is the same man
also a description of any other findings in-this field. I have the impression
that he was at that time attached to the United Nations in New York. In his
letter to me he expressed. an interest in anti-bacterial agents and in chemo-
therapy. He had some position at the University of Warsaw.
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