This discussion of some of the problems involved in mobilization of the health resources of the country for defense will be limited to a few of the many health personnel and health supply problems with which the Health Resources Office of the National Security Resources Board is concerned. The difficulties experienced in World War II with respect to the withdrawal of professional personnel from certain communities, without due consideration for the health and welfare of those communities as they affected the national interest and safety, set the stage, as it were, for the approach that should be made in the future. The critical shortages of certain medical supplies similarly conditioned us for better planning in the medical supply field. The onset of the Korean difficulties and the subsequent enactment of Public Law 779, an amendment to the Selective Service Act, not only re-emphasized the need for mobilization planning in the health field, but materially pointed up the problems that had to be solved at a...