Meeting of the Joint Scientific and Joint Technical Intelligence Committees

Of the concrete cases mentioned there was no clear evidence that the ban on bringing their families to this country had been the prime case of the Germans refusing contracts. (c) It might be that the request to bring families to this country was in many cases merely a reflection of anxiety to obtain some sort of permanent status in this country. (d) It was thought that much of the rumour in Germany of the indifference of our authorities to the employment of scientists was due to the fact that we were only concerned with a high grade of scientists and engineers and not with the lower grade of technicians.