§ 46. Sir Wavell Wakefieldasked the Lord President of the Council if he will consider the formation of a volunteer scientific reserve of young men and women willing to offer their services in the same way as volunteers offer themselves for service in the R.N.V.R., the T.A., the A.A.F., and the R.A.F.V.R., so that there will be a nucleus volunteer organisation of scientists available to the country in time of national emergency in the same way as a reserve is available in the Armed Forces.
§ The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)The Government are fully aware of the necessity for ensuring that an adequate number of trained scientists is available to serve the defence Forces in a future emergency, and the possibility of forming a volunteer scientific reserve along the lines suggested by the hon. Member will certainly be considered as one of the possible ways of achieving this end. It must, of course, be remembered that the scientist requires a very different training and works under very different conditions of service from the fighting man.