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IN the December issue of Antiquity, the editor discusses in the frankest terms the future and the policy of that publication in relation to present conditions in international relations and world affairs. After the most careful survey of all possibilities and probabilities, it has been decided “to take courage, and at any rate plan for the year 1940”. In arriving at this decision notwithstanding the difficulties which arise both from the almost complete cessation of all archæological activities on the outbreak of war, and from the absence on active service of many of its contributors and subscribers, the editor's decision has been determined largely by the view that the periodical for which he has been responsible both in and since its inception represents an essential contribution to learning and progress to which, so far as is humanly possible, there should be no interruption. In this opinion he is fortified by expressions of opinion from his supporters, of whom one writes that it is “of paramount importance that all foci of Culture and Learning should be kept alive” during the present troubles. While endorsing in the strongest terms this formula of one, at least, of the functions of publications of the class to which Antiquity belongs, we would also second the more readily the editor's appeal for continuance of that support from the public which has helped him to win for this publication the position which it holds in cultural studies to-day.
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Antiquity . Nature 144, 1040 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441040a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1441040a0