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Sir David Bruce (www.whonamedit.com) (4653 words) |
 | David Bruce was born in Melbourne, the son of Scottish parents who had immigrated to Australia during the gold rush of the early 1850s. |
| Bruce was thus the first to prove that an insect carried a protozoan of a pathological kind. |
| David Bruce felt that trypanosomal fever and sleeping sickness were different stages of the same disease. |
| Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient David Bruce (8170 words) |
| BRUCE: I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world. |
| BRUCE: I think because it was considered that as a civilian who was not connected with Government, he seemed to possess the confidence of so many elements in the population, not only the Congress and the administration, which was a Democratic one while he was a Republican himself, and fairly generally throughout the country. |
| BRUCE: No, he was sympathetic to talk to; he was swift in arriving at decisions; he was tolerant and courteous and considerate in connection with any personnel matters we had in the State Department, for instance, and I found it rather delightful to deal with him, especially because one didn't waste any time. |
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