Dear Editor: ... May I also take this opportunity to praise the staff of the AI Magazine for a most informative and professional journal, and one which I find increasingly important for acquainting me with the latest progress in American research. I look forward to the continuing success of the Association in all its activities. Dear Sir, Yours sincerely, Marten E. Bennett Gzllingham, Kent, UK I would like to comment on something disturbing that appeared to be revealed at the recent I J C AI conference at Karlsruhe. The background to it is the "Marietta affair." At the industrial exhibition associated with the conference a Germany company, Marietta, was due to mount an exhibit.

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The second example is of another distinguished scholar who, in a passionate contribution to the debate, stated that ... May I also take this opportunity to praise the staff Western governments, were thereby displaying a full sense of I look forward to the continuing success of the Association social responsibility, and anybody who disagreed with this in all its activities. On the surface this appears Yours sincerely, to be at least logical, until one reflects that it would not Marten E. Bennett be particularly difficult with this kind of argument to prove Gzllingham, Kent, UK that Hitler displayed a sense of social responsiblity, since one has no reason to believe that he was not sincere in believing that Jews, communists, Western capitalists and others would destroy his country if not checked. There is really not much excuse these days for anyone The background to it is the "Marietta affair." University of Cambridge, "Defended to Death," edited by movement protested on the conference site, and after some Gwyn Prins and published by Penguin Books). I came away from the meeting wondering why apparently comments.