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THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1957.

THE CLIMAX

EMERGENCY OP....

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And remember this is real... it is happening day and night.....at this moment ... as you are reading

SIX people gathered about the operating table with its green towels and they looked down at a gap in the towels about one foot long by nine inches wide.

The towels entirely covered the table. And Sarah. They even covered, anti- soplidly her head as well. Nothing could be seen of her but the "working area." So Sarah, laughing, dancing, dying Sarah, was now just a hole in green towels. red flecked. To these six people she was not really a person; she was a "working

aren."

This is how It always is and how if should be. Detached. Uninvalved. Surgeons do ani

operate people but on parts of people. The difference i important.

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The six people aroundt the able were the Chief, registrar. house surg on, anaesthelist, student, and theatre safer.

The worst

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THE Chief had discovered the

worst. The peritonitis

which had been killing Sarah

SCISSORS

ARTERY FORCEPS

THE SIGN LANGUAGE

OF THE

LIGATURE

SURGEONS

can

see

WHAT only the trained the hand language which the surgeon uses to ask for instruments.

was not caused, as he hoped, by off the Infection flooding Sarah's needle sealed off bleeding: and gature a buret appendix but, as he body. foored, by something more dis- astrous; an ulcerated bowel.

(for

tying off large a singeing smell whielt few blood vessels).

Fland palm up ever get used to, people

A wards, forceps.

Palm up with For this the "working area"

glance at the clock.

two fingers extended: selssors, had to be at an angle. The The alster pusyed an instru- The table was tipped to 30 degrees, There was

no doubt,

lo the Chief, Nie

to looked at the Chief with Sarah head-down.

The ment Iesleliar and the Chief said: "Fraid 20 theatre sister, at the high end, Antra, to the house surgeon. Another. Another. There was "Like stood on a stool. And the registrar said:

work for all. The Chief mostly Jani week."

Yes. Like another girl they operated on. Same age, sume symptoms, same trouble. She died.

Now they faced an operation

the

£400,

It was nearly 7.30, nearly two and a half hours since the work

And it went on....

And a nurse, aged 18, the one who had never sees a major operation befate, loaked around to see who was watching ber and, thinking no one was, crept over

table 10 the

and..

looked.

Then she went back to the wall, white and sick and shaken. but with the beginnings of a smile. She'd done it. It could never be as bad ogoln..

UNDER the glaring: lamp the Chief starts to operate. The operating table is tilted. The sister at: its foot has to stand on a stool. This was the way they worked for two hours and 50 minutes.

Forty Years Of Soviet Industrialisation

By GEORGE BOLSOVER

OCTOBER this

year sees the fortieth anniversary of the Communist seizure of power in Russia in the name of the Russian working class. The avowed aim of the Communista in taking power was to carry out a social revolution by building a classless Socialist society based on public instead of private ownership of the means of production and distribution.

In some ways the most significant and Important of their achievements during the past forty years has been to transform Russin from a predominantly agricultural country into the biggest industrial power in Europe, and second only to the United States in the world.

This industrial revolution and to the workers with the biggest the speed with which the cutput. Communists have pushed it

last

for

through have naturally exacted The remarkable expansion of their price; and the type of Soviet industry in the suciety which has emerged twenty years has been explain-

as a victory with and out of. industriallen- ed by some tion has curiously and viciously central economie planning and distorted the original Communist by others as the outcome concept of what a classless the substitution of public

of ownership Socialist society would look private

means of producfion and dis- tribution. But neither ex-

two other factors

like.

of Tsarism. But she wan si far

of

for tho

moro

Russia was already beginning planation is in itself sumelent, to industrialise rapidly, partly and at least with the help of foreign capital, have played a much even during the closing years significant role, behind West European countries Industry assumed the form of Firstly, public ownership of such as Germany, Britain and State ownership, and with State France. The First World War and the Civil

ownership of Industry War which State management of industry, followed the Communist seizure This

went

widened

considerably of power seriously interfered the already extensive powers

Sarah's colour, her her pulse. Somolimes, at crucial moments, he "breathed" for catastrophically.

fallen

..................... with her industrial progress,

and by the time the Civil War of the Soviet Stele and enabled the, Communist leaders who to breathing, was over at the end of 1020, monopolise these

industrial output had

Industrialise at breakneck speed with Hutle regard for tho wishes of either the industrial workers or the population as a whole.

her, controlling her lungs by squeezing a footbali-sized bail So there was no romance attached to her face mask.

Nothing but here, no glory.

and plodding Exhausting toll patience and, yes, the brilliance of the Chief,

The check

Was

said nothing, using hund signals used so far and reported "All sponge band round his forehead, hollow needle in her arm and output had climbed buck

To soak up sweat.

to ask for Instruments....

A nurse counted the swabs

toricet." A nurse pui usul

back His band held up, like instruments

stopping traffic: sterilisers.

Su the work went on in the green-white light under

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Its aim was this: the Chief had to find the ulcers, remove the disensed part, and so scal

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#

BY.

ROBB

NEVER,

AND

to

Secondly, by means of their In 1921 Lenin Introduced his dictatorial powers, Stalin and New Economie Polley, which

designed to promote his colleagues were able to make the Soviet people But the true symbol of it all,

economie recovery by con- ND sometimes he disconneel-ccasions to

Acrilico Improvements in their would say, was as he himself

private enterprise,

ving standarda to provido not his scalpel

theed the saline drip from the ond by but

about 1827 Industrial

resources for large-scale in- vestment in heavy industry, passed into the needle urgent something like the 1913 level.

forged consequently drugs to help her through a The result was that

in 1923 which difcutt phase.

ahead at the expense of the Stolin

consumer goods industries and Every 15 minutes throughout Party felt able to launcht

and ugriculture all-out attack

private strengthened

the the operation he checked her

enterprise, which smacked blood pressure to make stwe her

military potential. of capitalism, They heart was standing up to the then

with the coupled this attacks strain.

first of what was to prove T

inio the The anaesthetist looked regu- larly under the towels, checking

BY

REPORTED

MERRICK WINN

EVER ENVY

A GIRL LIKE THIS

PRESENTED BY JOHN LAMBERT

KIM NOVAK used to be other love goddesses

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and

the Communist

an

to

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None of these people-and succession of five-year plană this is certain once thought of economic development based "We're saving a life." Ther on rapid Industrialisation and thought, more likely: "After the colicetivisation

Ob, well, no supper."

and

greatly

country's

Since Stalin died, 1h0 consumer-goods Industries, arti this one there's that other one mechanleation of agriculture. particularly agriculture, have begun to receive a bigger share This marked the beginning of the resources made available Not callously. To do their job of the Soviet industrial for capital investment than in as well as humans can possibly revolution which has continued the past.

it is still a de it this was their alm.. If ever since in spite of the des- Communist dogma that the Sarah had died they would have truction and dislocation caused heavy industries must continue been sorry, as anyone is who by the Hitlerite invasion during to enjoy priority over the tries hard and falls.

But they would have lost no sleep. And that, again, is exact. ly as it should be,

The ending

the Second World War.

of

But

consumer-goods industries and maintain A faster rate OL

A low figures will illustrate growth.

the magnitude and the nature

this industrial revolution, The type

of society which Between 1928 and 1958, coal has grown out of the in- output rose twelve times from dustrialisation promoted by the 33.6 to 420 million tons, steel Soviet Communist leaders bears All she said about being a love

output over eleven times from little, if any, resemblance to

dreams of a plump, shy girl who and so often, I have found goddess with two ex-husbands

not die, It is 4.3 to 48.8 milion tons, cement the

Marx and And ARAH didi was: "All pictures stink. sewed seams in silk the girl who

output also cleven times from Engels. hns every no man is going to mess up MY hard to say at what point about 2 to just over 22 million mare

The State has grown powerful

and highly stocking factory for a liv- thing winds up with nothing life again."

she stopped "dying" and her

toms, oil

times centralised instead of withering output seven There was no fe was saved. cx-parachute one

from about 12 to 84 million away as Marx predicted that dramatic moment, there

tons, and the output of electric it would when private properly Monroe hardly ever is.

power nearly forty times; from had been destroyed. The 5 to 192 million kilowatt hours. Soviet State and not the Soviet

worker

the owns

Soviet factories and all that they

Ing.

she wants.

I

REMEMBER

packer Marilyn

Then suddenly

3

camera tine,"

Novak Perhaps

to

was

*

of the new were n

produce. Control really resta with the vast

army of bureaucrats who administer economic the State and the

Tho

The other night I watched T REMEMBER ex-cabaret Love Goddess, circa 1856). The her soar into the sort of life hostess Rita Hayworth last time I saw Monroe she was Perhaps it

when the many a working girl day- (Love Goddess, circa 1947), hiding in a cupboard at a big anaesthetist noticed her pulse dreams about.

Was The last time I saw Hay. alm premiere. She also begin to strengthen, towards the end of the operation as the la- With her performance in worth she looked radiantly shaking with fright.

fection receded, And she said: "Those crowds "Jeanne Eagels" this 24- happy as she sat with

At first, most Well, she was stitched up will Industrial workers be handsome young actor in out there nearly tore me year-old ex-seamstress

chreds. I feel like a freak

steel wire and nylon and skilled and unused to the dis- enterprises belonging to it comes the shining 1957- a London night club.

and it frightens me oll the sprayed with artificial sidn and clpline of factory

life, and She is style golden girl.

In practice, even the trade given a transparent nylon dress- they created serious difficulties ing so that doctors could later for the authorities by frequently into

119 unions have been turned the latest in the line of the flashbulbs popped. Hay.

thinks she look at the wound without moving from job to job and egalitarianism, which had been

State organs. Hollywood love goddesses. worth found out that her can beat those sort of hoodoos. disturbing tail in the modern place to place in the hope of such a marked feature of the

But alreadyway.

Anding work where living Her company is sought escort had invited her out 1 hope she does.

Revolution and the years by every playboy prince because he wanted to get the success scars are showing.

And, in the modern way, this conditions would be tolerable, immediately following 11, come Government gradually to be attacked and was finally Her HIS picture in the news- millions. worth his

She has put off her marriage girl who nearly died on Friday But the And, with

mastering four to Mr Mad Krim after three was sitting up in bed on Satur- succeeded

Jettisoned as brake on In- every whim is anxiously papers.

problem partly by inten- dustrial marriages behind years of romance. Her career, day and walking on Monday.

expansion. Soviet sive schemes of indus. pandered to by Hollywood broken

society has developed not as a and education troining producers. Her wide-eyed, her, she sobbed: "This is she says, can't afford matrimony. is starting to throw tan- She

She will, of course, talk about tra

classless, but as a markedly a "auck and partly by trums, on-and off-the film her operation, She will talk wilful (and 30-years-out-of-the only sort of romance I

strailfod-soclety, with the high This brought Party and State about the Chief. She will Carrot" polley.

funellotiories date) style of beauty will get now."

probably not

talk about theatern penalties for even minor as the dominant groups. That's why I think a working other 12 who

discipline, girl can be happier with only her. day-dreams. So often a love

I doubt goddess turns out to be only too human,

make her the most copied girl in the world.

I

But should she be envi- ed? I remembered

she

ex-secretary REMEMBER Ava Gardner (Love Goddess, circa 1952). The last time I saw Gardner

eliting the mooduly alone over a highball,

WRI

For bracing the Ika'y mashie

sets.

tho

and

helped to save breaches of labour

the widened steadily differentials between different whether she even grades of workers, and knows about them.

disproportionately high towards

Everybody will go to any length for a bar" of Nestle's Chocolate,

Cummings

"'* • . and Instead of despatching difficult colleagues' to distant power stations, or Outer Mongolia

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pay

KAVO

*

Some observers argue

that

by creating a big and belter- educated industrial labour force and a new managerial class,

the Sevlet industrial revolution has already done away with the backwardness and Ignorance which made Stalin's dictatorship.possible and historically necessary. They point to the changes which have taken place in the Soviet Union since Stalin's death and predict that these changes will Inevitably gain, momentum and eventually modify 'the Com munist dictatorship out at áll recognition by a gruchial process of evolution.“

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Others argue that dictator- ships

and despotisms Rave considerable in-built strength and staying power, and that such concessions as the Soviet leaders may make to popular pressure for changes, and lightening of burdena: (will 'never touch, the essentials, di the Communist dlotatueship, which only another revolutiona can hope to destroy. Which, It either; of thêne views is right, only the future can abow.