Stratton Committee Reports

EARLY in 1955 the National Academy of Sciences made public an exchange of letters between presidential assistant Sherman Adams and Academy president Detlev Bronk regarding a White House request that a special committee be appointed to advise on the formulation of government policy on the relations between questions of loyalty and the awarding of grants and contracts in support of unclassified scientific research. Dr. Bronk accordingly appointed a seven‐man committee headed by Julius A. Stratton, vice president and provost of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and consisting of the following additional members: R. F. Bacher, professor of physics at California Institute of Technology; Laird Bell, Chicago attorney; W. O. Fenn, professor of physiology at Rochester; R. F. Loeb, professor of medicine at Harvard; and H. M. Wriston, president emeritus of Brown University.