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In 1975: Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia; Saigon surrendered and U.S. pulled
out of Vietnam; Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft link up in space; David Beckham and Sia born.
At the RPSL: Society stages a yout h philately day.
RPSL Presidents were Lt Col S.E. Hands and Ronald A.G. Lee. Patron H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.
Membership 1446.
Dr ALBERT SCHWEITZER BIRTH
COMMEMORATION
From the collection of Grace Davies.
Member since 2011. Lives in England.
Dr Albert Schweitzer (1875 -1965) was already a famous musician, theologian and philosopher when
he trained to be a doctor. He built a hospital in Lambarene, Gabon and was awarded the Nobel
Peace prize in 1952 for his humanitarian work there. Illustrated are a strip of trial colour plate proofs
and the issued French birth commemorative. The designer and engraver was Eugene Lacaque.
3,000,000 stamps were printed. Although planned for 13th January 1975 they were issued llth
January. Similar designs by Lacaque were produced in the French colonies.
