11 JUNE 1942, Page 4

The Brains Trust, I believe, is about to take a

holiday. A proper step, for the faculties of some of the members certainly n refreshing. To hear every member on Tuesday declaring -him incapable of telling a colonel—the question came from no private or N.C.O. or single or double pip—how a fly gets off ground was to question the right of scientists to survive at all. P fessor Huxley did not know. Even more incredibly, Common Campbell did not pretend to know. Could I, you ask, have told the colonel how a fly gets off the ground? At rate I could have told him how I should do it if I were a fly. flies would be the better for the information.