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Even French doctors have an underground paper. The latest edition of Le Medicin Français (The-French Doctor), a small (four-page) mimeographed sheet, recently arrived in the U.S. It is published "Somewhere in France...
...Medicin reveals the Nazi plan to ship 5,000 French doctors to Germany, urges French doctors to find ways to frustrate this deportation...
...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...
Because kitties have grown so lean, Frank Jay, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his string of Riviera casinos and hotels last week for the pittance rental of 2,000,000 francs ($80,000) per year to a French syndicate in which Mayor Jean Medicin of Nice is prominent. Thus "M'sieu Goolt," who enjoyed poor health last summer, transferred to Frenchmen the thankless job of running these properties on the cheap until kitties grow fat again. Other Gould properties in France, including his paper mill, chocolate factory and the spa Bagnoles de l'Orne, remain...
Henry Sydnor Harrison's account of the work at Dunkirk and Ypres is perhaps the most finished piece in the book, while the telling of the death of Richard Hall by Waldo Pierce and of the speech by the "medicin chef" is moving and beautiful. It is impossible to read it without knowing intuitively the supreme worth of the service of all these...