Dr. John Paul Vader

This paper is part of a doctoral thesis John Paul Vader wrote in 1981 for the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. It is being read by May Hofman Ballerio. It was quite unusual for someone earning a medical degree at a French university to write about the persecutions of the Baha’is of Iran from the perspective of one of its most celebrated Swiss scientists, Dr. August Forel (1848-1931). Dr. Forel was honored with one of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s weightiest Tablets. In the 1920s there was a wave of persecutions against the Baha’is. Dr.