RECONCILIATION THROUGH SCHWEITZER
SIR,—Why does your correspondent, Rev. A. H. Walker, couple the names of Schweitzer and Niemiiller? Does he imagine Schweitzer is a German? It is true that he was born five years too late to be born, as were his parents, to French citizenship. But he has been a citizen of France since 1918, and his home has been in a French colony since 1913. He owed much of his education to Paris. If Mr. Walker had read his works, he would not need to ask what is his attitude towards the Germans. You printed a letter from me to the effect that Dr. Schweitzer is an Alsatian, and that it causes him grave annoyance to be regarded as a German, about ten years ago, and in justice to him I trust that you will also find room for this, since the delusion that because people write in German they must be Germans is widespread.—Yours
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