Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the world famous medical missionary and philosopher, has described a visit to Jerusalem as a “long-cherished hope,” in a letter made public today by the Hebrew University.
In his letter in which he thanked students of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School for a gift of more than 100 medical books sent to his hospital in French Equatorial Africa, Dr. Schweitzer said he followed every development in Israel “with great interest”
Describing the great shortage of medical literature at the hospital, Dr. Schweitzer called the gift of books an expression of a “spiritual bond.”
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