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MONKEY GLAND FORMULA PUT

HIM AT THE TOP

THE CHAPMAN PINCHER

COLUMN.

Dr. B. A. HEMS

N unassuming 38-year- four pints a xay. It also boosts

Scot - Glasgow the egg-laying power of hens.

Aoid

born Dr Benjamin Arthur Hems was Britain's out- standing scientist of 1950, according to a poll of expert opinion carried out by this column.

These experiments are being pushed ahead. But the scientists warn that the same drawback which ruled out "monkey gland" as a safe slimming treatment for women-|15* effects on the hoart may prevent its being widely used for farm stocks.

Small stir

women surgeons?

Women

Dr Hems has won lasting scientific fame for discover- Fing an ingenious new

method of making "monkey WIY are there no great gland" tablets. It has al- seem to be perfectly equipped ready increased the doctors' for a profession in which success skill and may eventually depends on fine-poin: dexterliy

rather than mental agility. enable farmers to produce more food.

"Monkey gland" the popular but misleading name for a drug called thyroxine -supercharged the system,

Yet, while about 3,000 men are rated proficient enough with the scalpel to qualify as Fellows of of Surgeons, the Royal College only 71 women can

put the

coveted F.R.C.S. on their name- plates.

speeding up the heart-beat, And these women have made the digestion and the energy such a small stir that a Royal output.

College of Surgeons official could' not remember the names of any

Abandoned

In the healthy kuman of them offhand when I asked body D gland called the him. located in. thyroid,

the neck, sets free just enough thyroxine to keep the "en- gines" running at a regular rate.

ST DUNSTAN'S Hospital scientists have abandoned attempts to build a radar "eye" for guiding blind people, after five years of experiments.

Radar itself was quickly ruled as impracticable, but eclentist Raymond Buerlo

But for thousands of from я people who suffer permanent thyroid disorder out

de-

an extra supply of it is es- vised a neat, torch-sized gadget sential. Without it they called a clicker, which sends out rapidly degenerate into pufly sound signals, and pick up their

What happened to your resolution not to set elephant traps for Grandma in 1951?”

SALES

London Express Barvion

RUSSIA AFTER STALIN

Future Rests With

invalids, with minds and echoes on the radar principle, Soviet People

Soviet People Themselves

Tesis with blind children were bodies barely "ticking over."

most encouraging, Buerle tells The "monkey gland" pre-

such The clicker gives me. for these doctors scribed by

from the ample warning of hazards such patients is extracted

The as pillar-boxes that the children thyrold glands of sheep.

walk- along unknown drug had been made from chemi- could

routes at two miles per hour. cals before, but in this form it

Unfortunately

the clicker was extremely expensive and far less effective than the natural no help to blind people walldag extract.

along a familiar route-in fact And as it slows them down. they usually stick to routes they know they cannot be bothered to carry it.

as

in

[

Working

Greenford, Middlesex, laboratory, Dr Hems has now found a cheap method

"monkey of making synthetic

d," which hospital tests have gland, one fully as effective proved to

the natural

Bubstance. The

this stead of a cruder will enable dosages to be noDÉ accurately controlled.

Scientists have also found that, if the new synthetic drug is given to dairy cows, it in- creases milk yields by about

use

of

Viewpoint

In-

the issue. In the last› resort' of seething resentment against the dictatorship, in his opinlan will be decided by the Russian In character they are the vast majority of the people people:

moving batween now living in the Soviet Union extremists have no idea of personal liberty, periods of long: passivity and Those Rusalans avho understood short violent eruptions.

ineline to the processes of democracy are dividually they

Nor aro they at now in exile, in prison or dead. gentleness.

heart a warlike poople. Never- stages in On the

other hand, Siz theless, at different

their history they havo: rebelled British ambassador during the

the rebellions have been charac-. in the same period, discerns

terised by savage- cruelty. Russian people "a certain yearn- ing for better times, for more beauty, for less dragooning in their lives, for greater contact with the outside world."

By Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart Maurice Peterson, who was the against the central authority, and

N December 21, 1950, Generalissimo Stalin celebrated his 'seventy-first birth- day. Of the 31 members and alternates of the Central Committee which launched

Sir Robert Bruce Lock- .bart

www educated Scotland, Berlin and Paris, and joined the Consular Borvloe at the age of 24 He has very considerable knowledge; based on per- with the leading

of

Bonal acquaintance, SURGEON'S opinion: "Athe 1917 October revolution

many woman's skin is her shop he alone survives to exer- pure drug, in- der gland extract, window, and more and more of else supreme power. His

It is exposed to the public gaze

Hereage position seems unassailable. every year," - Bir Ogilvie, of

Hospital, The Guy's

dictatorship of the 5.1.

proletariat has become the -(London Express Service)dictatorship of

and today Stalin is the Tsar not only of Soviet Russia but of all Communists throughout. the world.

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Batter?"

and "Comes the Reckoning." Sir Robert is now ins his carly sixties.

One difference

The characteristics of a ruco There is also the evidence of

like do not alter easily, but there in ex-Communists - men Ignazio Silone and others who une profound difference botwear were members of the Comintern the Russia of the Tearn und! the The and who are shocked by the Soviet Union of Stalin.

people have learned to read, and regime and by though their Herature is con- cruelty of the what they consider the betrayal trolled, the Russian and, indeed, of the revolution. In

broad the foreign classies are free, and outline the picture they draw is in the work of authors like as follows:

New castes

Pushkin, Gogal, Dickens and Shakespeare there la material enough to kindle now fires of liberty.

Moreover, religion, to which Although social classes have Communist dogma is ruthlessly been abolished, there is now a opposed, has neither withered new system of "castes." Tie away nor been wiped out by ruling castes, subdivided from force. Stalin down to the smallest tuncuomary, and

He has husbanded a strong constitution with a

Have all the During the war Stalin found strict routine, and rumours

the privileges. it

for necessary,

patriotic of ill-health have never been Today no such struggle is ap-. powest caste includes the reasons and the security of the confirmed. The few parent, nor can the chances of

and peasants; who regime itself, to meet the up- possle foreigners who have seen the

candidates be workers

represent 80 percent of the surge of religious sentiment by the anti-God pro- any other means Russian, people and who are ex- relaxing by their proximity to ploited in a degree unknown in paganda and the oppression of

In the Orthodox Church,

him during the last two assessed by years have noted no mark than

ed change, beyond that of Stalin on official occasions and any Western democracy. increasing age, in his phyal- by their order of procedence on trigu cal or mental vigour.

Sounder view

oficial lists.

In reverse

revolutionaries

Churches filled

of

and

trigues and personal rivalries abound in the ruling caste to 14 extent comparable with the corruption of Ab Stalin has never allowed tall ancient Oriental court. Dis- By all calculations, how-

content 19 widespread and, Though the Orthodox Church ever, he is an old man who popples to grow round him, but an

in precedence Molotov comes although unable to express itself has no political power and, i has lived through strenuous, arst. He was Stalin's associate forcibly for the moment, will fact, gives official support to the times, and in all the

in the editorial room of Pravda one day prevail over despotism. regime, the religious sentiment engendered by the war has not capitals of the world, in- before the first World War and

This picture may be over- died, and today the churches cluding Moscow itself, one will be 61 in March. Already he drawn, but it is present in the the large Soviet cities are filled, aged, but by question is asked persis- looks an old man. He has never minds of the despots themselves not only by the

Soviet citizens young tently: what changes will been a popular figure, nor, in who after 33 years of absoluto

still live

at officers born since the revolution.. a rigidly In take place in the Soviet the opinion of those who have power

guarded seclusion.

The curious Met remains that There are, Union when he dies?

from killing Had to deal with him, does he too, clear indications that Stain education, so for possess the qualities of leader-

has no desire for a war in which religion, has revived it, ship.

the Soviet Government might So alammed have some of the appear to the Russian people militant Communists become A more formidable figure is to be the aggressor,

that they are demanding stronger- Malenkov, a younger man whom at a

measures' for the extirpation of but Official opinion in the Stalin sent to Stalingrad

roligion, not by violence, critical moment of the war and Western world envisages no who

by a more vigorous propaganda.. now holda the key post great alteration in the of secretary of the party. There

In the final count it may wall. Soviet system, and for the is also Berya who controls the

Stalin belongs to the pre- be that education and religion. West this is the safer and vast network of security. But revolutionary cra when it war will be the tuning-point in a

of the remaining fow who help an accepted

against principle of the reaction not so much sounder view. There are, to guide the destinies of the

that Tearisma Socialism as against the savage however, many factors to Soviet Union, Mikoyan is the could not be overthrown with methods by winch it is applied.. bo considered-the quality most able.

out a war. Today the principle works in reverse, and it is for of his successor or succés:

this reason that Soviet propa- sors; the measure of discon-

paganda, seeks Doristently to tent which may exist in the

creato in the minds of the Sovict Union; the per

Russian people the perpetual The toll of envágóry has been · But there is no one who stands fear of an aggressive attack by formkimble, and there can be. manetice of the whole or

fow Russian families which have part of what he has creat out as a potential successor. In the Wos

my opinion, a military dictator-

not had some direct or indirect ed, and the characteristics ship is unlikely.

During the

It is a polley fraught with experiene of its ruthlessness...

the whole vast of the Russian people. war the generals were exalted,

but as soon as hostilities ceased danger both for the world said For 20 years

for the Politburo, for when the structure of the various Soviet regards the succession, one they were made to resume their hand of Stalin is no longer in Repubiles, now 10 in number, marmise can be made with full

They modymity. previons confidence. It will be a long. However, one of the privileged control, the principle that the had been nud fother by a

which falls in the time before any leader car castes nod, if their loyalty and Soviet Union must never dght irongly deffandide regime of a war of aggremis might no and all-powerfa' figure. In ab predominant and oubiniscion to Stain are unques longer be observed. achieve the authority pratige which Stalin has created ionable, they have neither the

and also in the for himself during the 25 years same: regard not repoet for his

It is dificult to foregoing akolino To Hil of his reign. It took him 17 civilian colleagues.

which feresting

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