Group Formed to Help Medical Students, Held Here by War, Enter U.S. Schools

In accordance with a suggestion of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, steps have been taken to obtain admission into American medical schools of 400 American students whose studies in Scottish schools were interrupted by the outbreak of war, and it is believed that the problem will receive favorable consideration at the annual meeting of deans of American medical colleges to be held in Cincinnati on Oct. 23, a committee of the students announced today.

The students, many of whom are Jewish, had protested against the State Department’s refusal to grant them passports, and Secretary Hull had suggested that “a committee of experienced and interested persons should make every effort to work out with the American Medical Association and the Bureau of Education and any similar bodies which could be helpful” a plan for admission of the students into American schools.

Accordingly, a committee was formed which so far includes Dr. Ashford of the New York Academy of Medicine; Dr. Joseph Wrana, president of the Queens County Medical Society; Dr. G.E. Milani, president of the Bronx County Medical Society; Dr. Herbert Edwards, chief of the Health Department Tuberculosis Bureau; Dr. A.J. Rongy, Arthur Garfield Hay, Stanley Isaacs, Manhattan borough president, and Dr. Spivak, president of the Riverside Medical Society.

The Interior Department’s Office of Education, through Commissioner John W. Studebaker and Dr. Walton John, has communicated with the A.M.A. urging it to take cognizance of the problem. The students’ “Committee of Action” is preparing to make a full statement of the problem at the Oct. 23 meeting of medical college deans.