Probably the most widely available Allied scientific journal around the world during WWII was THE LANCET.
The fear of death being common to dictator and democrat, socialist and fascist alike, all leaders and elites welcomed the hints for prolonging life that the world's leading medical journal might provide even (or particularly) in wartime.
So in April or May 1943, a Nazi or Japanese diplomat in any neutral country could easily get a look at the March 27th 1943 copy of THE LANCET from some friendly doctor and see in it a lead editorial article all about the great progress made in the chemical synthesis of the natural antibiotic penicillin.
The fear of death being common to dictator and democrat, socialist and fascist alike, all leaders and elites welcomed the hints for prolonging life that the world's leading medical journal might provide even (or particularly) in wartime.
So in April or May 1943, a Nazi or Japanese diplomat in any neutral country could easily get a look at the March 27th 1943 copy of THE LANCET from some friendly doctor and see in it a lead editorial article all about the great progress made in the chemical synthesis of the natural antibiotic penicillin.
