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To the Editor: —We are writing to applaud the statistical data on Licensure of Foreign-Trained Physicians inThe JournalMay 30, 1953 (p. 438). We wish, however, to stress the growing problem of what is to be done with the increasing number of graduates from unapproved foreign medical schools. Our organization, the National Committee for Resettlement of Foreign Physicians, has, since 1939, concerned itself with the equitable resettlement of qualified foreign physicians who are refugees from persecution abroad. Since the early days of Hitler, there has been a steady immigration of foreign physicians (except during the United States' participation in World War II) from many parts of the world. Our agency is the only one in the United States that is concerned with the resettlement problems of these immigrants. Between 1939 and 1942 we registered and rendered service to about 7,000 emigrant physicians, mostly from Germany and Austria. After World
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