Washington Letter
(From a Special Correspondent)Nov. 28, 1949.
U. S. Doctors Accompany Ewing on European Trip
A White House "news leak" on November 22 disclosed prematurely that Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing planned a six week visit to England and the Continent for a personal investigation of national health and welfare programs. He was scheduled to leave New York, by air, on December 1, returning to the United States in mid-January. His party will include Dr. W. Palmer Dearing, Deputy Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. David E. Price, chief of the Division of Research Grants and Fellowships, National Institutes of Health, and Earl McGrath, Commissioner of Education.Mr. Ewing told the special correspondent for The Journal that he expects to confer with Aneurin Bevan, British Minister of Health, and officials of the British Medical Association, among others, while he is in England. The