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Show Red Cross Seeks 1,000 U. S. Doctors To Aid Britain on Far-flung Front m ENGLAND O r"i GIBRALTAR - iVff v. v';."-?1 PALESTINE A . ECYPT2 NGKONG NIGERIA BRITISH V Jf - - Vi C& Above, Britain' long line of de- V-j' rJv : ' VO'"' i W-, fense, crosses marking points where JJi -'V ss , . . v. : s- , American doctors will serve. Right, L-- i - . s-'- v J ' a Royal Army Medical Corps physl- W f . . s clan, treating an emergency case, VVifri i1 ..Jv-'' wears the uniform which American . s ,nr'"v y. Ni doctors may choose to wear In serv- .jK " s Ing Britain. , V ' - V IvT' " xx . v,-' x V j Washington, D. C Out ot the -x,f N v 1 -VJV ( " nKony ot bomb-wracked Britain has k f -v.v v't's. ' - - V '- come an appeal for American doc- - :visv A V f. i h itrltaln's request Is bolng met. : ' ''-nsJT' ' Alrenily the American Red Cross. .. ? Vy - 1 nctlnK for lior slBter society In Kng- s: - i:"4Alvfe (s' land, hna can-led the appeal to the V" V " nation's medical profession. Up s-l X to 1,000 American doctors will &'??y f P" & - : i v bu needed by the British Rod Cros rfU'fVC , In supplement the hard-pressed s'v.-X----' . Ht.- ' ' ' corps .f doctor endued in saving .v: Nfc vy- k lliillsh lives from Ixindon to Slnija- J T Lv pore. ' j y f v ( . " ; American Red Cross workers jfC C ' jv who have been In England since the N 1J f v 1 f f 1 inn set oMiOHlllltles report tho rood t - " . "v s v V Is acute. Formerly a nation at war n ' v v w " x v X VN " ,',1 'lectors to treat the sick 4CIn O s s , - TwsA. I. irn-iV. i Above, Britain's long lines of defense, de-fense, crosses marking points where American doctors will serve. Right, a Royal Army Medical Corps physician, physi-cian, treating an emergency case, wears the uniform which American doctors may choose to wear In serv Ing Britain. Washington. D. C Out ot the agony of honib-wrackod Britain has enmo an appeal for American doc-tots. doc-tots. Britain's request Is bolng met. Already the American Red Cross, noting for hor slBter society In England, Eng-land, hns carried the appeal to the nation's medical profession. Up to 1,000 American doctors will be needed by the British Red Cross In supplement the hard pressed corps ,f doctors engaged In saving lliitlsh lives from Ixindon to Singapore. Singa-pore. American Red Cross workers who have been In England since the on I set ot hostilities report tho need Is acute. Formerly a nation at war needed doctors to treat the sick and wounded on the battle front. Today, with aerial bombardment of civilians, Britain finds her doctors lighting agnlnst desperate odds. American doctors will report to tlie British Red Cro s where they will be allowed to chooso service either In the Royal Army Medical Corps or In tho civilian Emergency Medical Sorvleo, Ibo valiant corps of physicians assigned to homo defense. de-fense. Their service will bo for one year, but If at tho end of that period they wish to continue, they will be eligible eli-gible to promotion. To be eligible for service with the RAMO. doctors must bo 40 or younger, while the EMS will accept men tip to 4S. IVsplin the cruel aspects of all-out all-out hostilities, American physicians answering Britain's appeal will be protected by the Red Cross Treaty of Geneva, a 77-year-old Interim-tlonal Interim-tlonal agreement still In force on tho battlefields. American doctors, ns far as po slble, will be allowed to choose where they will serve whether It be In London, Rangoon, the Middle Fast or any point of emergency along the far-stretched lines of British Brit-ish defense, The appeal of the Kiltlsh Red Cross has the endorsement of fhe rresident of the Vnlted States, the Secretary of War and the Surgeon General of the TuMlo Health Service. Serv-ice. These doctors subject to mlll- lary training under our own flag are being given special censldera- Hon by the Selective Service. |