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In the past few days there has been news from several quarters of protests against recent events in Czechoslovakia. The first of the documents which follows was signed by a group of scientists meeting at the XIVth International Conference on High-Energy Physics in Vienna on September 5, 1968. The second document is a letter from the president of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences to the President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.