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A NEW NATION IN ASIA.
Asia and most of the world greet a new nation of seventy million people today the United States of Indonesia.
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1949.
BRITAIN LEADS IN
'BLUE BABY" RESEARCH
British surgeons are writing
a now chapter in the glorious history of medical science.
A now pre-operative technique is being perfected in the diagnosis of the distressing blue baby' discase.
This technique gives the sur- geon the fullest Information to date on the disease and eliminates much of the danger in the subso- quent operation on the heart.
Surgeons
regard the trentment an of first-clas
1m- portance. Victims of the disen- se are by no means rare. The British Medicni Association est- mate the number of
in cases Britain todny as severn) thou- sands, although many cases
ore not serious.
By John Lee
Britain, and Mr. Brock's opera, and a chance to give their babies tion inside the heart,
put normal,' happy lives.. this country in the lead in the fight against the disease,
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Perfect teamwork
Success depends new
011 perfect teamwork before and during the operation.
In the theatre itself the aesthetist plays a part of vial Importance.
Great care has to be taken because the heart la ai- ready weakened by the disease,
An Inclsion is made in the chest wall and the heart exposed. Then, guided by X-ray plates, the surgeon gently inserts a thin scalpel into the heart.
The X-ray has already re- vealed the exact position of the obstruction and, with the knife, It is cut through., The opera- tion is long and extremely deli- cate,
Vital information
The new technique, briefly, can be described as the passing of n hollow tube, no thicker than fine wire, along a vein in the arm straight to the heart
Nonsense,
Impressive results says Julian
to
over and
Mr. Brock, writing in the DMA Journal, stated: "Although the plight of these children has been well known, it is only since the prospect of relief by operation has been avaliable that the Sta- Ancidence and full tragedy of the
condition has really
como light... we have been whelmed by the numbers have been very impressed by the large, amount of suffering and human misery that has been re- vealed..
"We have seen children as old as six years who have walked .. his heart operation is a cure for Mr. Brock does not claim that "blue babies." There is still no known care for the disease. But operations, both the Brock and Blalock the majority of cases, materially
improve condition and increase tient's expectation of normal life.
So far Mr. Brock has reported
The Information obtained from sovereignty of, and pressure reading of the beart authority over. this great and samples of the blood for esti on only five of his "miracle" op- archipelago have been for-ting the oxygen content is in-
valuable. mally transferred from the Dutch to the representatives of the new Indonesian Gov- ernment.
What "blue baby"?
In hentthy body blood, with suelent supply of eglving oxygen, flows strongly and freely
from the heart to the lung during
its errulation through the body. A blue baby" is ona born with a heart defect which
cuc
rations, and guarandedly he states "The results so far are extremely encouraging."
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As far as is known only one other surgeon
Beliain carried out this type of opera- tion.
The first "blue baby" operation In Britain was carried Professor Blalock, using his own technique.
out by
of
1047.
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few the
In the
The outcome of this operation and of others
that
followed enused such a stir that hospitals were besleged by thousands of anxious parents who saw a new hope for their afflicted. children
summer
of
10
early
sufficient vents
supply oxygen entering the blood through the lungs. The cause is an obstruction in the artery lending to the lungs. bluish tinge to appear over parts of the body and, until years ago, most victius of disease
condemned were severe disability and death
This lack of oxygen cause
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In many cases "blue babies" could never leave their homes or even their room; few steps and they were breathless.
Few, 1 any, could walk more than 100 yards. Even these, 15 they grew uluer, became completely
mobltised.
Thus another chapter has been written in the renais- sance of Asia. which is the greatest feature of contem-tals this circulation and pre- porary world history: an epoch which will be a mag- net for historians for a long ume to come. It is a great day for the peoples of In- donesia, and for the peoples of Asia as a whole.
For centuries the peoples of this teeming Continent had been looking back. Their vision like their pride, was of the past. In some cases, as in that of India, it was to a dim and very distant past. But while India has taken The symbols of
the Asoka for the emblems of the new State, she and the nations of Asia POW look to the future. It is good to fool pride in a great past. and certainly Asia has just
for
pride 171 the achievements of the mighty men of ages ag No Con- fnent has contributed more to the deepest thoughts of or more profoundly to the faith and mysticism of great religions.
TRIN
great
But it is not good to have 's thoughts and aspira- tions led in the past. No Batam ran give of its best if it is content with the legacy
are a source
we
American discovery
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One of
never
the
the
pa-
Next ten years
But what of the future?
How
long will the improvement last? And the most Important quas tion of nil: Is it permanent?
Doctors, surgeons and scien tists all over the world are wait- Ing. During the next ten years the "blue hables"
who found relief In the operation will have be closely watched,
At the end of that time the doctors hope to have the answers
to their questions.
The world's best
dancers
By Philip J. S. Richardson
It is an indisputable fact | London "Sunday Dispatch," In that for the past 20 years which the very best dancora are England has led the world in taking part, one sees crystallisod ballroom dancing and
Such provements as have been that made during tha
Preceding
Maurice Campbell, itam's foremost "blue baby experts, after an analysis of the pge mekdence in 340 patients, re-enthusiastic dancers in all nonths. The dancing of the ex-
two Ponto that only
countries seck to excel in the age of seven, children was likely to survive till
what has become known as only o
ta four likely to reach the age of
the "English Style." 14, and less than one in 10 to
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WAY
In 1944 two American doctors. Professor Alfred Blalock and Dr. Hoten Taussig, discovered a of relieving a “blue baby's" con-
The artery tition. passed and an artificial channel by. WON created.
But last year Dr. R. C. Brock, a Loudon surgeon, found that in inside the heart, and that it was some cases the obstruction was
possible to clear the obstruction It is not always possible
to perform the operation,
The patient may be too young or certain complications MAY make it inadvisable, and, of course, if the obstruction is out- side the heart the operation is unnecessary.
The now pre-operation techni que which is now being used in
What is this "Engilsh Style" which 20 years ago 'mado English dancers the best in the world and which keeps them, particularly the professionals, carily first to day 7
The story goes back to the days which immediately followed Bret world war.
the Dancing was then at the height of its popu- melting pot. larity, but technique was in the
New rhythms
The old style, based on the five positions and tied to the apron strings of the ballet, the style of Victorian and Edwardian days, had been pushed off the floor by the younger generation of dancers
perts at the Empress Hall on December 10 therefore formed the ideal towards which overy teacher will endeavour to steer his pupils,
British
It has been urged that all dances are of foreign origin. statentent only partially true. Wo That is a misleading received the raw material, that is, the original rhythms and steps, teachers and dancers who have from abroad, but it is the English moulded this raw material into the finished article wo see today.
The slow foxtrot, most beauti- ful of all doneos, came originally from the United States but the slow foxtrot we dance is abso- lutely English.
King's broadcast
in their search for steps to int to commonwealth
pret the now rhythms which had come from across the Atlantic— foxtrot, ragtime, and super syn-
Huxley
By JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES
Good Morning
Trip tease
Christmas
may be over apparently they haven't got around to telling those big-hearted tram conductors
It's not like me to stand up la defence of the Japs, even at this time of year, but I do fol.theso charges of germ warfare were mistakenly made by types who once saw some Nip soldiers.
Mankind must be more modest, queting theologian, Neither
says B contemporary, "the world famous Reinhold Nelbur, today.
Is professor of applied Christ- Janity."
Apparently his first namo.
what hila surname
In, commenting on my re- cent book "Russia Puts the didn't know dane tells his "Dally Worker" Clock Back" Professor. Hal-was doing. readers that he has seldom The golf club secretary hurried
demonstrably untrue state- feet in front of the tee. read book containing more ber addressing the bell a
cver when he saw a new mem-
ments.
"I'm sorry
he Interrupted, "but we play either from the tee or behind IL Never,"
he omphnaised with a shudder, "in front of it."
For this reason, no doubt, he still refuses to answer my charges about the
attack science.
Russian
on
tew
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He and all Communists have to
The golfer's only move was to pretend to like Lysenko and his re-address his bali. new-old theory that environment,
Insist,' "must not heredity, shapes our
urged the Ilves; secretary, havo to accept the Party Be The golfer straightened up and which outlaws established selenti- looked hard ht de theories for political reasons;
his Interrupter. have to keep allent about the per- secution of truth and reason go- ing on in their spiritual Home.
Their position being hopeless, they want us all to forget the very name Lysenko.
"I happen," Fre cald with dignity, "to be playing my second shot."
8pare the rod.
of his
05
"She spoke highly organising, abilities headmaster, and paid tribute to his unflogging interest in the pupila."
This bioke arrested for smok-
That being so, it is important that those wh believe that free- dom of thought and of scientine research must be defended moulding while sitting on 200 tins of return to the attack agalh and again, Dr. Julian
kerosene was at least prevented Huxley's now
book, Boviet Genetica and World by the police from being all Bolanoo, since the author is a dig burned up; tinguished
practising biologist, cannot be ignored by the
medievalists.
nuw
"The new evening and dinner dresses for winter rench from
According to Huxley, Lysenko's, just above the ankle to mid-calf" theories are not true or falso, they Myrtle says they might be are simply nonsense. Lysenko de-attractive, scribes his results in such a way decidedly chilly. tha nobody can get any clear
but
they sound
iden as to what his experimenta Good' ald Georges. mean. Yet this man has been given a dictatorship over the short whole field of animal and plant breeding in Russia, and only hla theories may be taught in Soviet schools.
Huxley's book deals
with the Russian scientific purge in what some people might feel was too detached a way, but, even if the author wanted to avoid any kind. of political blas, the facts which he so ably marshals make that task almost impossibic.
Well, once again, for however French government
a period, we've "gut a whose name we can pronounce.
What is so serious is that the whale Soviet people are being conditioned to hate and distrust the world outside, every intellectual achievement of
Huxley gives an example which would be comic were its implica». tions not tragic, "Krokodil,"
Marzist
the
A body of soetni workers ba Scotland recommends that prison Inmates should be allowed to spend week-end at home.
Special arrangements will no doubt be made for those serving sentences for bigamy»,
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These poor children next-door have no Mummy or Daddy and no Auht Jane,” atid
a mother to her little boy. "Wouldn't you
ke to give them something?"
"Yes," replied the youngster, "et's give them Aunt Jane."!
·
Two
men were discussing a mutual acquaintance.
"Nice fellow," said one. "Have you noticed how he always leta his friends pick up the
"Punch," printed a cartoon show- ing an alchemist amid his retorts, with the words "This is How alchemist-oclentists used to try to bill?"
success.
gold--without
of
dinner obtain
"Yes," replied the other. "He Opposite is a "bourgeois-scientist" has a terrible impediment in his with a typewriter, a bottle port, elgar, and
cheque for touch." $10,0000. "This is how conlampor-
bourgeois-scientists like! Hermann J. Muller and Sir Henry Dale) obtained gold with great success."
Ary
of temnote ancestors. It is even difficult to survive, itself. physically no less than in personality, in the world of science and change as And it today, unless the achievements of the
past not only of pride and confidence but of inspiration 12th
to do greater things in the future.
(Continued From Page 5).
In the "bourgeois-scientists" pocket are two articles Inbelied That is precisely the sup- got along together exceed-cepation or jazz.
"And if not the whole world, "Against Michurin" and "Against reme gift of the West to ingly well, perhaps because With affairs in this state and certainly the greater part of it is Lysenko." Asia's millions. The pioneers they were opposites.
with no established body in exit longing to see Great Britain and from Europe found the East, Even in the long and tance capable of setting mattars the British Commonwealth keep- shackled to the pasta past tenacious battle of negotia- right it is not surprising that
dancing became chaotic anding their place and able to pull whose greatness, it is true, tiong, interrupted so often eccentric. Ox the Continent their full weight among the great rivalled the brightest pages by breakdowns and socalled things were worse — in fact, they Democracies, who are jointly, and of Greece and Rome-but "police actions," the personal
deep the foundations still the past. Now the mis- relations between the two Prelates of the Church thundered a secure peace for us all, sion of the West is being parties were invariably cor- against it. more clearly seen than ever dial. The Dutch had the re-
"My peoples indeed are part | In England I was able to call in its fulfilment, and, with putation of being the most a great meeting of more than 800
of something much bigger than themselves the family of all fulfillment, the withdrawal obstinate of all the "foreign representative teachers who decid-
humankind. Bolence. of tutelage. It is not quite Imperialists." Certainly they od to do their best to sat matters taught us lesson anforced the old house and the old outlasted all others, with right, and, for this purpoɛs edm-
mittees were appointed.
by the tragic experience of two culture which the peoples of their long record in Indone-
World
wars-how close the Vitimately a mall body of
saveral parts of this family are Asia are moving into today, sia. And the Indonesian Re-English teachers who formed the for the West has left its mark publicans had to fight very evolved the basis of a now tech- Anal committeo slowly but mirely
to one another, and how quickly the good fortune or fortune It is a house, moreover, hard indeed to attain their nique based on the principle of
„of ona ́la folk by the others. which they passionately de- ends.
APBI.
KOWLOON
Poninsula Arcade.
Phone
life.-
Archbishop of Paris and other toy wore to bad' that the Cardinal I pray, 'successfully, striving to
of
natural movement in which the sire to change. They do not, But it cannot be doubted feat moved as in walking and not Big responsibility of course, want to transform that these ends have now turned out nd in the Victoriań
days.
"If, therefore, we are convinced, themselves into mere copies been attained. Indonesia The simpler steps of the popu- as we are, that the democratic of Western peoples. But they starts her new life as free as lar dances were described the way of life gives to free men the do intend to take the best of any other nations in the great importance of a correct car greatest degree of human hap- both worlds, and mould them world. The future is before age of the body was stressed piness and the best security against into a synthesis which will her for weal or woc. The rise and fall" and, "contrary spare no effort to make that way and by degrees the secrets of any form of tyranny, we must give their vast numbers a nations of Europe as well as body movement" were disclosed of life vigorous and strong both better and happier way of of Asia will watch her pro bocomo general, and the judges and for the years to come.:|
By this time competitions had gress with hope and sym-based their decisions on the tech- Something of that
"The responsibility on us all is syn-pathy. There are bound to be nique the committee had evolved, very great. thesis is written into the difficulties. The Communists, Very quickly: the effect was ap "Many of you will feel, as I various agreements which taking their line from Mos. parent to all the standard of have created the United cow, will make as much improved improved to such an times are greater than can be re dancing in this country rapidly do, that the troubles of these States of Indonesia and the trouble as they possibly can, extent that ita reputation became solved by human wisdom alone. new Dutch-Indonesian for there is a quality of known on the Continent and Con- And today to a world distracted, Union. The link between malevolence in Communism tinantal teachers flocked to dis-anxious, and * uncerțala, comes them is the oldest that exists which non-Communists find From that day to this the Christmas Day in its wonder of
cover how it was done,
once again the good news of between governments of it so very hard to under-English Style" (ps this new God's power and love, reaching Europe and Asia. The Dutch stand. There are also fanatical dancing was called) has never out to help and save fren: trom went to the archipelago groups of Muslim, zealots looked back, and today the Eng failure and frustration,
fish professional, couples, at the
ACORN nearly four centuries ogo. known as Darul Islam, whose top of the tree are the finest ball "May we win for ourselves this There was more between terrorism has already taken room dancers in the world strength to sorve others by. con- them than the bonds of aedrious toll. But wise ERCORECA stant faithfulness; to His purpose and be 'true' to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. (Tho King's quotation, was taken from Wordsworth's poem To a Sky-
governor and governed, no statesmanship has providedA Will form the ideal
two people It is true, could be sensible and solid founda-
Thus most surely shall ye
more unlike: The tall, heavy, tions for the future, and the ufque competitions have played a
In the building up of this tech and somewhat dour Dutch Federal structure should very big part.This technique is tark"Y men always, formed a striking safeguard "Indonesia against comparatively young fand }|from contrast to the small, dapper the breakdown of racial re time to time light improvements make our own the new hope and and often mercurial" Java- lations such as now threaten
ure discovered.D
In really important competite which comen to with nese. Yet somehow they: Burma's exlite
tuvaltion, much as the organised by, the Christmas!
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