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that the war in
IT IS exactly month since General Franco and Signor Musso- lini each proclaimed, in exultant publle addresses, Spain was over.
A reference to the Telegraph" files shows the following statements: March 28-The war in Spain.is over." Signor Mussolini.
April 1-To-day the Red army is captive... the war in over."- General Franco's last-communique.
Now read the following:
"I desire to reafirm that if this evacuation has not been completed as the moment of the termination of the Spanish civil war, alt
remaining Italian yolunteers
forthwith
ell
wiil leave Spanish territory and Italian war material will simultane- ously be withdrawn."
That also is Signor Mussolini. It
Js the pledge he gave Mr. Chamber- lain in the Anglo-Italian Agree- ment,
Last week it was officially an- nounced in Berlin that General Franco has agreed to join the anti- Comintern Pact.
Here, then, are two answers to those who throughout the Spanish war argued that Britain's polley of "non-intervention"
would win Franco's gratitude in the end. That bit of wishful thinking has been blown to the winds. Franco's grati- tude and quite naturally, top-has been reserved for those who helped him by guns and bombs and aero- planes to crush the Spanish Repub- llc.
Italy, also agreed to Non-Interven- tion, and broke her word on that pledge, The British Government dis- graced itself by maintaining a so- obviously one-sided arrangement
after it became clear that neither Italy nor Germany intended to keep their word. Non-Intervention far from ensuring strict neutrality, nided Franco to victory.
now
The Democracies are faced with the fruits of their policy. As a result of Britain's and France's self-delusion and wilful obstinacy at a time when the whole of Spain might have been made, a bastion against the dictators, the communi- entions of the British Empire are thrown into the direst per and the French Army mus fuce possible Invasion from the west as well as the cast and south.
British statesmanship and sense of fair play has changed radically since the days when Wellington and Moore chased Napoleon from Spanish soll. On that occasion Britain alded the Spanish people against a dictator, During the past two and a half years Britain has reversed her policy to such an extent that, far from niding the Spanish people against an alien Invader whose aims and objects were no less inimical to our Interests than were Napoleon's, she has passively, aided the dictators to achieve their object.
Who can doubt now but that Mus- solini and Hitler intervened in Spain, not to crush the "Reds", but to crush, if possible, the democracies?
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Tae
He'll live to be
NYONE, except a new, inexperienced father, would have recognised it as a normal, · new-"
born infant.
"Do you think he'll live?" asked my friend, anxiously sur- veying his firat-born,
"Why, he'll live to be a hun- dred," said the doctor cheerfully, as he gathered up his bag.
The trouble with young fathers that they are so literal-minded about their offspring.
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Did he really mean that?" my friend asked me when the doctor had gone.
"Well," I sald, Judicially, "your son can expect to live fourteen years longer than you could when you were born."
a hundred
by RITCHIE CALDER
(REPORTING PROGRESS).
ten" to the average man and woman.
At the moment only one in forty people in Britain live longer than that.
.
That additional ten years he has pointed out would be the dividend which medical science could de- clare it only the knowledge which is now available for the treatment or prevention of tuberculosis, pneumonio, cancer, and athor diseases could be fully applied.
If I had had the chance I would have explained what that meant, but he had already dashed to the telephone to tell his relatives... What I had been trying to
*tell him was that the average span of life when he was born was not three-score-years-and-ten, but 48 J'ears. To-day, because of the -health-services and-the advances-ledge. Greater advances have been"
in medical knowledge it is about
02.
And that is still only half of the life-span which the biologist from his study of animals would ascribe to man. Because in animals we Ond that the period which they take to reach physical maturity- when all their bones are set and their teeth complete-is a fifth of their normal life.
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TN human beings the wisdom - teeth may be Bald to complete the body-structure. Those, appear at 23 or 24 years of age. Five times that gives 120.
Surgeon-General Thomas Par- ran, of the United States Public Health Service, has been telling n Committee of Congress how wo could add another ten years to tho life-span. how we could give the Psalmist's "three-scare years and
EMEMBER, wo are living in the Golden Age of Medical Know-
made in the last 25 years in the study of human weaknesses and diseases than at any period in his- tory.
One hundred years ago the aver- age life-span of the town labourers was less than 20 years. That is to say, the high infantile death-rate, the deaths through tuberculosis and the other discasca which struck down the labouring classes before they reached adult life, re- duced their chances of surviving to a third of what they would be to-day.
Nowadays, we are saving more and more children by proper care both of mothers and infants. But it still is not good enough. In- deed, another generation will con- sider it disgraceful. The Infant death-rate in New Zealand than half what it is here.
Jess
It is true that the infant death- rate bag been halved in less than
40 years, but what right has the Chief Medical Officer of Health to talk about the rate "approaching the irreducible minimum " when other countries pre doing 30
much better?
Especially when well-to-do suburbs of London can show an in- fant death-rate of 33 per thousand births compared with 114 in, for instance, poverty-stricken Jarrow- on-Tyne.
Through poverty and the dia- cases to which it gives rise, more than half-a-million men, women, and children in the North and in Wales died prematurely in the last ten years. Year after year in those districts we are sacrineing 50,000 human beings who, but for poverty, might have lived a full life span.
That is the grim side of the reckoning.
O
N the credit side, we have the great strides which have been made in preventing or treating human discoses-the rapid decrease in the. death-rate from tuberculosis and infectious diseases, the vast im- provements in hospital methods and, prophetic of even greater advances, the growing knowledge of how the human body works. Belenco is finding the keys to Nature's secrets. We are learning how the glands, which promote growth and control the processes of living, work.
From these we can learn how
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Orders for further 300,000 domes- tic steel air-raid shelters at Home have been placed. Plans have been mude for intensive production.
The first delivery of 400,000 shelters to householders will soon be com- pleted.
Sir John. Anderson announced in the House of Commons recently the namnes of the 12 A.RP. Commissioners who will control regions in England, Scotland and Wales. Twelve deputies have also been appointed, and it is expected that these names will be announced at the same time,
The report of experts appointed by Sir John Anderson to investigate the Finsbury deep ahelter scheme may be made public before Easter,
DASEMENTS
Experiments In the strutting of Sosomente have been concluded and a report on this form of protection may also be made soon,
Wholesale provision firms have been naked by the Food Defence Plons Department to form groups to ensure regular supplies of food In war-tint. If one firm, were put out of action its busindas" would ho con- tinued, by other," members of the group under Government supervision.,
By Lichty
Yesterday I lost control of the car and drove past three bargain sales before I could stop it."
men and women grow old, animals, scientists have speeded up the life-process. In human beings it may be possible to slow it down, prolong the to-span. We may be able to adjust the balances as a watchmaker adjusts a clock.
For instance, it is now known that in the pituitary, a gland no bigger than a pea situated at the - base of the brain, there la a chemical-producer which nots as a counter-balance to the tiny glands, "The Talets of Langerhans" in the pancreas. The "Islets" pro- duce the insulin which controls the amount of sugar in the blood:
No
TOW 1 that sugar is ex- cessive, it causes dia- betes. But, on the other hand, there is an excess of insulin, it is equally fatal. And the job of part of the pituitary is to prevent that,
This method of check and coun- ter-check between. the various glands seems to govern the work- ings of the body and the methods by which men and women reach maturity and then gradually de- cline into old age.,
Maybe we will be able to coun- terfeit those counterchecks and. postpone the décjlbe.
In the last few years we have been given drugs which doctors de- scribe as "miraculous.”
"Prontosli," the red aniline dye converted into a powerful drug by German chemists, makes it pos- sible to wipe out deaths from child-bed fever,
Its offspring "M and B 003." produced by a British firm through study of Prontosil,". has, had phenomenal results in the preven tion of deaths from pneumonia,. meningitis and other germ dis- CASCS.
Books on medicine are out of date before they are a year old, so rapid is the advance. Every week brings something new.
Maybe my friend is the father of: a centenarian,
Germans Not To Marry Foreigners
Berlin,
A law is to be issued shortly by the Reich Government forbidding marriago between Germans and foreigners.
60XES
will apply to both Present marriages are not affected
by it.
It is probable that a "zero, hour" for lovers who are already engaged and contemplate matrimony will be annexed to the law, so that Berlin may expect a rush to, the altars and register offices this spring.
"GERMANIC PURITY" German girls consider it a great privilege to be able to marry a man of foreign nationality, as by obtaining the passport of another State they Can escape the wearisome respons!- bilities now heaped upon them.
This new measure, which will en suro "Germanio purity" in the future is considered in Berlin political cir- cles as a symptom of the radical polley which has bitherto marked this year.
It is not yet known whether the law will forbid marriage with Ger- n-speaking nationals. of other States-Geman-Americang Germans In Poland and people of Czech, Hun- garian and Swla blood.”-