April 12, 1961

Dr. A. Metzner

c/o Chemische Industrie
Verlag Handelsblatt G.M.8.H.
Dusseldorf

Germany

Dear Doctor Metzner:

It would take an encyclopedic effort to answer your questions,
and | would hesitate to oversimplify in generalization.

Whether it is politically 'Justiflable'' to maintain a broad
range of intellectual activity is misstating the question.
Rather it is an objective of our political mechanisms to sustain
the free choice of Individual expression.

Under separate cover, In case you haven't seen [t, | take
the Illberty of sending a copy of ''Goals for Amerficans'' ~- The
Report of the President's Commission on National Goals, which
is an excellent statement of the aspirations In many flelds by
many studious participants In American life.

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics