ABSTRACT
Chisholm believed wholeheartedly that the world could only be saved through vast social engineering schemes run by cosmopolitan elites and international government bodies. Like people today who insist that the world is teetering on the brink of ecological disaster or pandemic catastrophe, Chisholm maintained that radical solutions on a global scale involving the sacrifice of elementary personal freedoms were necessary in an era when humanity's future allegedly hung in the balance. The meetings of international health experts between 1946 and the 1948 formation of the World Health Organization increasingly were dominated by Chisholm who watched national health representatives fight over issues ranging from the location of its headquarters to the wording of its new constitution. In the late 1960s, Chisholm suffered a series of debilitating strokes that forced him to give up his globe-trotting activities.
