Maryland Physicians Protest Nazi Treatment of Jewish Colleagues

A protest against the treatment accorded physicians of the Jewish race in Germany has been recorded by the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in a resolution passed by that organization.

The resolution has been forwarded to the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association with a recommendation for adoption. The local body asks that, if and when it is adopted by the national medical group, it be sent on to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull and the two Maryland Senators, Millard E. Tydings and Phillips Lee Goldsborough, for insertion in the Congressional Record.

“That this body of American physicians”, the resolution says in part, “indignantly protests against the injustice visited upon members of the medical profession in Germany, who, because of their race or faith or descent, have been thrust out of their positions in dispensaries, hospitals and universities, and greatly hampered in their practice.

“Among them are many whose contributions to medical science and art have been invaluable, and have brought great credit to Germany, irrespective of birth or descent, to vindicate that honor by bringing about the abolition of a discrimination so repugnant to the spirit of science and humanity.”

“A resolution expressing indignation at Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany was adopted here last night at a mass-meeting held in the auditorium of the Senior High School. Fifteen hundred persons heard Bishop Francis J. McConnell, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise denounce the anti-Jewish campaign in Germany. Former Ambassador James W. Gerard was unable to deliver a scheduled address because of a sore throat.

Henry de Sola Mendes, of New Rochelle, presided at the meeting which was arranged by a committee headed by Mark Eisner.