Underground Doctors

Even French doctors have an underground paper. The latest edition of Le Medicin Franc,ais (The-French Doctor), a small (four-page) mimeographed sheet, recently arrived in the U.S. It is published "Somewhere in France."

Le Medicin reveals the Nazi plan to ship 5,000 French doctors to Germany, urges French doctors to find ways to frustrate this deportation:

"Fellow doctors, if we do not exert ourselves, you will be mobilized in Germany, then shifted to the battlefields of the East where, in a German uniform, you will die for the King of Prussia. . . . Help to resist deportation by eliminating as many Frenchmen as you can at 'medical examinations'. . . . Prepare to stay in France in spite of the order to go. . . ."

Other news from underground:

P:"The [French] Academy of Medicine, has received a decree that all Frenchwomen leaving to work in Germany must have a complete gynecological examination. . . . The Academy opposed the principle of an examination which would place these workers on a level with ordinary prostitutes."

P:Liberal ration cards are denied French doctors--they get no more than sedentary civilians. And the ration for doctors over 70 is drastically reduced, whether or not they still practice.

P:A directive from Dr. Grasset, "minister [of health] by the grace of Hitler," says that Frenchmen to be sent to Germany need not be examined carefully as to general health and aptitude--a cursory once-over will do because those who are not very fit can be used as ticket punchers, etc. Le Medicin warns its doctor readers not to let Dr. Grasset lure them into passing any tubercular or mentally deficient people. Once in Germany, they would meet certain death.

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