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THE Balkan Medical Union (Athens, Belgrade, Bucarest and Istanbul) has addressed an appeal to medical men of all nations to take active measures to awaken public opinion on the horrors of war, and the terrible sufferings it inflicts upon the civil population of open towns. The Union believes that “only enlightened international opinion can make plain the imminence of the danger, and the uselessness, even for the victor, of war-time atrocities. The immutable truth that hate breeds only hate, and atrocity breeds vengeance, must be impressed on everyone”. The Balkan Medical Union, founded in 1931, is essentially a scientific organization; but it also aims at bringing together the intellectuals of different countries so that they may know one another, and come to a mutual respect and understanding, whereby the misunderstandings that engender hate and disastrous struggles between nations may be dispelled.
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A Doctors' Peace Manifesto. Nature 143, 513 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143513c0
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