Foreign News: Grand Old Confidants

As Berlin's new plenipotent "Medical Counselor," Nazi Dr. Wilhelm Klein stepped up one day last week to open the new Academy for Advanced Medical Study. He was expected to praise Germany's medical specialists, clinics and research laboratories, her mighty contribu tions to modern medical science. What the expectant doctors heard instead made their jaws drop.

"We will entrust," said Dr. Klein, "the job of keeping the German people physically fit, not to the so-called modern specialist, but to the old-fashioned family doctor. Let the young medical students take him for their model. The grand...

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