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THE CHINA': MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1957.

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EMERGENCY OP........Continuing a drama of modern surgery

Where you'll watch this

fight for

life

THE registrar said: "It's

going to be bad," and the Chief said: "Yes, it certainly is." They meant that Opera- tion Sarah would be long and difficult and probably dan- gerous.

In 99 per cent of modern major operations the patient has a 99 per cent chance of recovery. Sarah had a 70 per cent chance.

Not bad, not good. So every minute counted. Operate at once, or in hours she would die.

A porter helped to take her from her bed and then he wheeled her through the solemn ward to the lift. The other patients watched, thinking.

'I'm scared'

A WARD NURSE went too,

and a doctor. The nurse carried the saline-drip bottle still attached by its tube to the hollow needle in Sarah's arm,

The doctor carried two pint

bottles of blood.

It should have been three,

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The only words

spoken are

vital ones

But there is a shortage of blood, through a shoringe of donors, and many hospitals have less than they need.

Sarah, as it turned out, could have done with four bottles, She

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THE terseness of urgency is the only sound now as the green-robed team sets to work. In the foreground, the anesthetist, key man to success, prepares his injections, Behind, a mask goes on the patient. An almost robot discipline rules.

had to have blood substitutes, which, developed in recent years, are a fair second-best.

18, looked upset. Perhaps. partly because bottled blood has a "head" On it and because this was her first major operation.

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SHE said, privately: "I'm scared." Then, wanly: "1 expect I'll get used to it." But she looked hopeless, not knowing then that she would be splendid.

The Chief, the The others? anaesthetist, senior registrar or No, 3 surgeon, house surgeon, student howe anaesthetist, # theatre sister, two staff nurses three student nurses.

lag to the eyes.

No one

wore much under- neath. It was to be hot under the 500-watt lamp above the table. This was, very truly, to be a scene of blood, and sweat,

toil, with

the threat

of

THE FOUR MEN FROM MOSCOW

On September 6. It was

UR 1957 Congress ended

held at Blackpool, a seaside resort on the north-west. coast of England. Over a thousand delegates at- tended. They represented every union affillated to tho TUC, a total of 8,400,000 members.

In the pubile balcony on each of the five days were seated another thousand people drawn from the general publle who were there as interested visitors; there. were also observers from Government departments, great industrial concerns and foreign governments. In uddi- tien there were 250 Press men and representatives of radio and television.

by

...... Victor Feather ......

ASSISTANT SEC.

OF THE TU.C.

Why wore the four mon from Moscow so gloomy at the recent TUC Con- gross? The reason was that the tiny British Communist Party and Soriat policy come in for severor punishment than thoy have res ceived for many years.

past years. This year they were Among the observers were as quiet as mice, perhaps think- four diplomats whose faces grew ing that if they made little naise more gloomy as the week pro- they would not be noticed. They gressed. They were from the thought it wisest to take shelter Soviet Embassy in London, sent against the storm of angry trade by their Government to report unton opinion in Britain about what was happening at Blick- the violation of Hungary's free* pool in this great Industrial dom a few short months ago. parilament of Britain, the Bri- ilah TUC.

Why was their gloomy spirit so obvious? Perhaps because the

Tight Lipped

Free Speech

of

Judicrously small stooge cr- So, therefore, no disciplined ganisation of the Soviet Union Communist spokesman at the in Britain, the Communist Party, Congress dared to challenge the was getting a more severe chas- action which the General Councl tisement than it has received for of the TUC have taken during many a long year; and that is the year to assist the unfortun saying a lot, because Communist pic victims of Khrushchev's spokesmen have never received brutality. But ong life-long much support from people like member of the Communist the mineworkers, the textile Party wen! the rostrum to workers, the steelworkers, the speak in support of Soviot ag- transport workers and all the gression. He is well-known In other representative organika- Britain as a man on whom even tions, large and small, which rigid Communist discipline has make up the British Trado Union little effeck. He is a contradiction Movement.

in himself. He is an individual- istle Communist, The state- ments he made were orthodox enough from a Soviet point view. It was like a gramophono The thirty or so members of record of Khrushcheva gromo“ the Communist Party among the phone record of the "Sovjet union delegates have learned to Government's Les about tho be thick-skinned in the past be- massacre in Budapest. And tha cause of the many rebuils they delegates let him know, in no got. They had little to say for uncertain manner, of their strong of his statements, themselves at this Congress. So disapproval perhaps now they have learned Nevertheless, he was given a how to be tight-lipped.

full opportunity of addressing All wore masks and cops and They have good reason to be the Congress; and the interrupt white rubber boots; and the so. Since their shameful support era, who were so incensed of tho

wore gowns and the of Soviet aggresalon against hypocrisy, of the statements men

ho short-sleeved Hungary, the Communist Party was making, were called to nurses gowns or roots. Not white, but darkt in Britain has lost almost order by the Congress President, green, because green is less quarter of its membership. Its who pointed out that no matter membership of 35,000 is down how much the delegates might to a mere 20,000, and among disagree with the view which those who have left the Com- the Communist spokesman was munists are many men who expressing he had the right to have been members of the Party speak. The answer, he sald, for almost half their Ilves, could be given by other delegates Young men with some idealism, who wished also to avail them- who had believed false Com selves of this democratie and method 01 freo munist propaganda and thought traditional the Communist Parly fought for speech in the British TUC.

were staggered the oppressed, and shaken when they heard the

Criticism excuses put forward by the

to Communist leadership ub- The faces of the four Soviet solve the blatant aggression and diplomats in the publie gallery oppression of the Soviet Union grew more gloomy still as they against Hungary, Others, who saw with their own eyes that had thought that Marxism was here was the most representa- Not so long ago she would

the basis of the Communist tive body of work-people 'in any have gone straight to the THE anaesthetist fixed a mask

were shocked part of the world exproslog theatre for the preliminary to Sarah's face, turning the Party's ideology,

knobs of two cylinders painted into resignation when they horror and disgust at the setlona realised that. Soviet foreign of the Soviet Government anaesthetic. She would have black and white for охукет, Been the table, bleak blue for nitrous oxide (laughing policy alone is the basis of a against the attempt of workers the general tional Communist Party policy In Hungary to throw off the sight; she would have seen gas). Thla was

in all countries in the world. Soviet thraldom and establish a anaesthetic. the scalpels, the forceps,

The Chief and all taking The ancient professional lead-free and independent demo- the clamps, the swabs, and actual part in the operation ership of the Communist Party cratic State.

pulled on here in Britain, of course, has There was another Icason: she would have been afraid. "scrubbed up" and

rubber gloves, And the work not realigned. It is au aged there In Blackpool for the four leadership, with most of its ne- men from Moscow. They saw Now the patient

sees began.

The time was 11 minutes past tional leaders climbing steadily that fa Britain a spokesman of nothing, Sarah was to go 5. At 6.40 the Chief and Into the B5 and 70-year-old age the Communist Party is given into the theatre asleep and the registror both straightened, group, with no young leaders the right to speak his mind and coming up to replace. them. is protected in that right by come out asleep. She was They looked at one another.

The registrar shrugged, saying There are many people who be people who detest what he saya, to have one of the severest

In later discussions-of differ- Ilove that this aged Communist nothing.

not And the Chief said: "Frold leadership has operations in the book and

ent toples delegates went on the not even know what an so."

simply because they have no rostrum to express their strong encigy left to take their disapproval of decisions of the operating theatro looks like.

pens to write.

British Government. But has Although Communist member- anyone ever heard of a Soviat Some people still think

the ship in the British Trade Union worker daring to go on of the anaesthetist merely

Movement has always been rosirum at any conference of sort of surgeon's

small, the thirty or forty Com- any kind in the Soviet Union 'to munists who are delegates to the denounce the "mate," Wrong. The success

TUC have been"vory vocal. In ment? of an operation may depend on him even more than on the surgeon.

and

tears. The lift went up to the

Now the time was near. This top floor, and Sarah was was the crisis. These were the wheeled into the anaesthetic moments when Sarah was so room, separated from the very near to dying. operating theatre by swing

doors.

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Anaesthetists and gur- geons often pair off, be

"part- coming known as пега. The anaesthetist in Sarah's case, & world authority and a pioneer in anaesthetic methods, has been working with the Chief for nearly 80 years.

Now he looked at Sarah, slipped a hypodermic needle into her arm almost casual- ly and said: "What are you grinning at?"

Ready

ARAH mumbled: "I...

帽 I... and that was as far

us she got. Her eyelids fell shut:

like a doll's, not even Bickering.) Out-in Ave seconds flat.

She was new ready for the theatra The` porter wheeled her in, followed by the uneasy salino nurse still holding the drip. Both were masked, and word capa and gownr.

A shrug

-TOMORROW—

The mastery of the Chief

ALIA..

Up

resigned

Soviet

Govern-

Animals are to be sent:

up next to Test the living conditions for human beings, PIA, SOVIET NEWESTE

Ho Yes, the porter too. belonged to the team Umi was trying to save Borah. He was

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