America Honours Dr. Salk
(Rec. 10 p.m.). WASHINGTON, April 22. President Eisenhower today presented a special citation to Dr. Jonas Salk for his work on a poliomyelitis vaccine. Mr Eisenhower said: “The work of Dr. Salk is in the highest tradition of selfless and dedicated medical research. He has provided a means for the control of a dread disease.” In accepting the citation, Dr. Salk said: “My reward came to me, you might say, in the quiet of the laboratory, some two and a half years ago, when a light glimmered through the darkness with hopeful brilliance.”
He paid tribute to the "untiring devotion” of his staff, and said: “I hope that we may have the opportunity of seeing, again in our lifetime, the beginning of the end of other fears that plague mankind.”
Royal Visit to War Graves—-The Duke of Gloucester, who is president of the Imperial War Graves Commission, will make a tour of British and Commonwealth war cemeteries in Italy in May.—London, April 25.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27642, 26 April 1955, Page 13
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