MEMO FROM TO: TX

J. LEDERBERG Gus Nossal RC
GENETICS DEPARTMENT RO
STANFORD UNIVERSITY

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA JUL 20 1Q76

 

Peace Prize for WHO

 

I certainly associate myself with the
sentiment . However, the political situation
at and of WHO is so precarious, that this
1) might entangle the prospects of getting the

prize, or
2) the uses to which it might be put.

It is hard to foresee all that might
happen between the time that any of us commits
to the proposal, and the time it might happen.

My con ao Poeet is to focus on one
concrete unmistadble achievment , namely the
smallpox eradication project, and DA Henderson
in particular, and single on that for the award
rather than for the problematical contributions

of WHO as a whole (which even Dr Mahler feels
ambivalent about under his own stewardship).

ct: /&