The American Physicians Fellowship Committee of the Israel Medical Association has denounced the “incredible charges against Jewish doctors of Russia as a Communist threat against the medical profession. ” The resolution was passed unanimously by the executive of the APFC, which represents 1,400 physicians in 33 states.
In a resolution adopted at the meeting, the committee joined the Israel Medical Association in asking an investigation of the charges against nine Moscow doctors, most of whom are Jews, by an international medical commission. The APFC resolution declared that “it is inconceivable that there are physicians anywhere in the world who would abuse professional ethics and utilize their knowledge and experience for crimes such as the Communist charges would indicate, ” and called for the “mobilization of all American physicians to fight the cold war of Communism and expose these vicious lies.”
Joseph Brainin, leader of the National Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs, issued a statement yesterday terming “fantastic” the Moscow charges against the nine doctors. He demanded that Moscow permit foreign observers to witness the trial of the doctors. He also ridiculed the Moscow charges that Solomon Mikhoels, former head of the Yiddish State Theatre in the Soviet capital, was involved in espionage against the Soviet Union.
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