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...propose . . . Albert Schweitzer? WALTER B. SMALLEY Washington...
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...prime-mover's role as author of the Marshall Plan, which has helped Western Europe's ravaged economies through postwar convalescence. At week's end Marshall flew to Washington, entered Walter Reed Hospital for rest and treatment. From Oslo also came the announcement that Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 78, had won the held-over 1952 Peace Prize ($33.149) for forsaking fame as a philosopher, theologian and musicologist to spend the past 40 years of his life discharging "the greatest unpaid debt of Western civilization" —as a medical missionary in French Equatorial Africa...
Seventy-eight years old and still ministering to the natives of French Equatorial Africa, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary-philosopher-musician, was looking to the future. In a letter of thanks (for a supply of pills) to H. B. Burns, president of the U.S. Vitamin Corp., Schweitzer wrote: "I should like to accomplish some long-undertaken and far-progressed works ... in the realm of philosophy, history, religion and music ... At the same time, I have to keep myself in as good shape as possible for as long a time as possible for my hospital's sake ... It needs...
...window overlooking the Ogowe River in French Equatorial Africa, Physician-Philosopher Albert Schweitzer wrote in 1914: "Many a patient have I had come to me crying out: 'Oh, doctor! My head, my head! I can't stand it any longer; let me die!' . . . Sleeping sickness now prevails from the east coast of Africa right to the west, and from the Niger ... to the Zambesi . . . Yet, where death already stalks about as a conqueror, the European states provide in most niggardly fashion the means of stopping it." To treat the disease. Dr. Schweitzer had only atoxyl, which...