Dawson’s only crime was his belief in “Unpatented-For-All”

But I am being rather redundant : because of course unpatented (penicillin) IS (penicillin) for-all.

Its so much more than the basic fact that firms around the world would not being paying any patent fees to make natural penicillin.

Because the real point is this : the supply of un-patented penicillin makers could not be artificially restricted by denying patent licenses to them, regardless of their ability and willingness to pay, with the intent to thus indirectly keeping the price artificially high for the lucky few, those few privileged to hold the patents on artificially synthesized penicillin.

For this was the real aim behind the largely unknown wartime treaty between America and the UK devised to aid in dividing the world market for life-saving penicillin between only the two of them.

May I note - again - that there was no such treaty between the world’s two leading superpowers to divide the world market for atomic energy.

Again, may I note that America was (and is) traditionally super reluctant to sign international treaties in general.

So historians would do well to take this treaty as a priceless prism into how the two superpowers actually saw the varying economic importance of atomic energy versa antibiotics, circa 1945.

Dawson’s opponents saw a few pure people making a little pure synthetic penicillin for  a select few patients : Dawson saw diverse people making copious amounts of natural penicillin for a diversity of patients.

Beginning as it did in September 1940, this then, was the FIRST Manhattan Project : Unpatented-For-All .

Note to historians :

Henry Dawson’s only real crime was promoting postmodern Diversity during a worldwide hegemony of eugenic Modernity...