- Alex Tudor-Hart
Dr. Alex Tudor Hart, MD BSc, a member of a well-known British artistic and radical family, was a student of
John Maynard Keynes at Cambridge and then, later, ofMelanie Kleine .A Communist, he worked as a GP in the
Rhondda Valley inWales and served in a field operating theatre in theSpanish civil war [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=a49uplMY6CYC|title=The British Women and the Spanish Civil War|date=2002 |isbn=0415277973|author=Angela Jackson ] [cite article |title=Obituary: Alex Tudor Hart|date=1992-10 |journal=Socialism and Health|author=Julian Tudor Hart ] . Methods of dealing with fractures and associated wounds after surgery developed by Tudor-Hart when he worked inSpain continued to save lives in theSecond World war .He and his wife, the Austrian Jewish photographer, Edith Suschitzky, fled to England in 1933 so that she could avoid prosecution for Communist activities in Austria [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cHlWhjZEwXYC|title=A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals|date=
1999 |isbn=0826513522|author=William E. Duff ] . She is credited with suggesting to theNKVD recruiter,Arnold Deutsch , that the organization recruitKim Philby as an agent [cite book |title=The Philby Files - The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby|date=1994 |isbn=0316102849|author=Genrikh Borovik ] .Ruth Bader Gilbert has produced a bust of him (see [http://ruthbadergilbert.net/content/gallery9.htm here] ).References
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