SCHWEITZER, Albert. Draft ALS ("Albt Schw"), TO PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Lambaréné, Gabon, French Equatorial Africa, 8 January 1957. 1 p., on verso of a TLS to Mrs. Schweitzer, slightly browned , in French. SCHWEITZER SEEKS SUPPORT FROM PRESIDENT EISENHOWER in his campaign against nuclear war: "We have the conviction in common that humanity is going to be lost if it cannot decide to abandon the arms, the testing of which in peacetime is devastating to its existence on earth. May it be granted us to see the day when the peoples will realize that they have the fate of humanity in their hands from now on." -- SCHWEITZER, Albert. Two draft ALsS ("Albert Schweitzer") TO NORMAN COUSINS of the Saturday Review , Lambaréné, 24 September 1961 and 31 October 1962. Together 3½ pages, 4to , in French. Schweitzer informs Cousins that a global hunger strike will fail: "people will start sabotaging a movement of this kind with the argument that you can't tell if people are really...depriving themselves of food." But, he expresses hope: "It is up to us to rise up against the heads of state who are toying with the idea of using atomic weapons...to expose the consequences of waging such a war, which can only mean the annihilation of the peoples who wage a war of this kind." Referring to the recent CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, Schweitzer indicts Robert McNamara: "If we are truly fighting against atomic weapons, we cannot abstain from criticizing McNamara ...Naturally President Kennedy was of the same opinion...But one does not attack the President publicly." He urges discussion of the Berlin Crisis: "an atomic war over the Berlin problem is... an idiocy...if there is an atomic war because of Berlin, the first thing which will happen is that the two Berlins will cease to exist thanks to the deployment of atomic weapons." Together three items . (3)
SCHWEITZER, Albert. Draft ALS ("Albt Schw"), TO PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Lambaréné, Gabon, French Equatorial Africa, 8 January 1957. 1 p., on verso of a TLS to Mrs. Schweitzer, slightly browned , in French. SCHWEITZER SEEKS SUPPORT FROM PRESIDENT EISENHOWER in his campaign against nuclear war: "We have the conviction in common that humanity is going to be lost if it cannot decide to abandon the arms, the testing of which in peacetime is devastating to its existence on earth. May it be granted us to see the day when the peoples will realize that they have the fate of humanity in their hands from now on." -- SCHWEITZER, Albert. Two draft ALsS ("Albert Schweitzer") TO NORMAN COUSINS of the Saturday Review , Lambaréné, 24 September 1961 and 31 October 1962. Together 3½ pages, 4to , in French. Schweitzer informs Cousins that a global hunger strike will fail: "people will start sabotaging a movement of this kind with the argument that you can't tell if people are really...depriving themselves of food." But, he expresses hope: "It is up to us to rise up against the heads of state who are toying with the idea of using atomic weapons...to expose the consequences of waging such a war, which can only mean the annihilation of the peoples who wage a war of this kind." Referring to the recent CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, Schweitzer indicts Robert McNamara: "If we are truly fighting against atomic weapons, we cannot abstain from criticizing McNamara ...Naturally President Kennedy was of the same opinion...But one does not attack the President publicly." He urges discussion of the Berlin Crisis: "an atomic war over the Berlin problem is... an idiocy...if there is an atomic war because of Berlin, the first thing which will happen is that the two Berlins will cease to exist thanks to the deployment of atomic weapons." Together three items . (3)
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