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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1938.

The China Mail

Ninety-Third Year of Publication

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London Office:

Glass Heart

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Dr. Alexis Carrel, famed scien- tist of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has just made his first comprehensive re- port on the artificial heart, con- structed with the help of airman Lindbergh. Used to pump nutr- ient solutions or blood serum through portions of living tissue

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The human kidney was the most difficult to maintain alive, but nevertheless acted properly. by secreting urine. Each gland, such as thyroid or pancreas, secreted its proper hormone, and

Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 17, 1938. this method is suggested

GENOA SPEECH

Mussolini's

as a

means of producing hormones. Life could be maintained in tissue sections using artificial fluids, but to promote growth,

Signor

Genoa blood serum had to be used.

Hearts could be kept pulsating, speech was far from reassuring. fallopian tubes contracting, and It is true that I Duce referred corpora lutea growing. These lat- in laudatory terms to Mr. Neville ter results induced Dr. Carrel to the a cate-jattempt the growth from Chamberlain and gave gorical assurance that the Anglo- germ cells of a "test-tube baby"

cat. Italian Agreement would be ob- After twenty-four hours, how- served in letter and spirit. Such ever, the embryo had been ab- sweetening of the pill for those sorbed. Something unknown was querulous about the wisdom of lacking and, the experiment fail- Jing, nature had intervened in its the Chamberlain policy, however, normal way by cleaning away makes it no more easy to swallow the debris. when II Duce couples it with dis-

Most organs and tissues have turbing comments on the Franco-

now been maintaïned alive and Italian discussions. Restoration

grown artificially, and it is not of more normal and amicable re-impossible that this technique lations between France and Italy will lead to a method of growing

for replacements is just as vital a feature of suc-

injured or cessful British policy as the con- diseased parts of the human clusion of a direct Anglo-Italian anatomy. Agreement, for without

responding Paris-Rome

a cor- under-

standing there can be no guaran-

tees of permanency about it. The The Call to War Genoa speech was an intimation,

our,

the

War is

as_salutary_as was necessary, There is too much talk about that Italian policy is directed to the inevitability of war. one of two objects, a free hand to-day presenting itself as greater to bring the war in Spain to a than intelligence, as more, pow- finish in General Franco's fav-erful than man's ability to re-

or to split Britain and sist it and to destroy its basis. It. France on foreign policy. As the is presenting itself as the mas second objective is out of

ter of men whose right and question, with Signor Mussolini capacity of decision have sudden well acquainted of the fact, it ly become numbed. Daily, hour- seems safe to assume that dic-ly, men's thinking is being con- tatorially he was offering a bar-ditioned to the acceptance of gain, a more accommodating war. It is being conditioned spirit in Rome in return for re-against the shock of war. It is moval of French political resis being conditioned to expect war tance to a Spanish insurgent and to do less and less about it. "volunteer" conquest.

To do less and less about it!

The general trend of the speech That is the result of the reced- was disturbing for other reason. ing mental resistance to war and The tenour was unmistakable. Il the hopeless and unnecessary ac- Duce's policy of peace in co-ceptance of its inevitability. This [operation with Berlin means attitude is expressed in the men- nothing more, nor less, than ac-tal climate of people and in offi- ceptance of European appease-cial policies of countries. It is ment along lines which the two apparent not merely in the fact Dictators hold are essential to that the whole world has sailed the preservation of peace. "Stresa grimly into a colossal rearmament

There is Irene Scharrer. is dead and buried.”

race, but in the fact that the Irene Scharrer. to be no new Locarno nor Four-building of battleships and bom-

Power Pact.

bers to fight an unwanted It may be that much of Musso- has become our almost exclusive lini's sabre-rattling peace talk means of trying to avert an un- is capable of being dismissed as wanted war. tactical manoeuvring. It had, The result is that, while more however, far more of the nature and more thought and action are of a final declaration that Italy going into the construction of has gone completely over to the defence against the effects of Rome-Berlin axis, and that diplo- war, less and less thought and matists, hoping in the grateful action are going into the elimina- darkness of their craft, to dis-tion of the causes of war. The turb this relationship may con-mental and physical emphasis sider themselves warned off. needs to be reversed.

Ania Dorfmann.

Ania Dorfmann.

William Murdoch.

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