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IT IS exactly Л month since General Franco and Signor Musso- lini cach proclaimed, in exultant public, addresses, that the war, in Spain was over.

A reference to the "Telegraph" Ales shows, the following statements: March 28. "The war in Spain is over." Signor Mussolini.

Apr 1-To-day the Red army Is captive

the war is over."--- General France's last communique.

Now read the following:

"I desire to reafflem that if this evacuation has not been completed at the moment of the termination of the Spanish civil war, all remaining Italian volunteers will forthwith Jenve Spanish territory and all Italian war material will simultane- ously be withdrawn."

That also is Signor Mussolint. It Is the pledge he gave Mr. Chamber- Jain 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 Bnswers to those who throughout the Spanish war argued that Britain's policy of "nba intervention" would win Franco's grailtude in the end. That bit of wishful thinking has been blown to the winds. Franco's grati- tude and quite naturally, too-has been reserved for those who helped him by guns and bombs and aero- plones to crush the Spanish Repub- Ic.

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 for from ensuring strict neutrality, alded Franco to victory.

The Democracles are faced now. with the fruits of their policy. As resuit of Britain's and France's self-delusion and wilful obstinacy at

time when the whole of Spain might have been made a bastion against the dictators, the comtnun!- cations of the British Empire are thrown into the direst peril and the French Army must face possible Invasion from the west as well as the east and south.

COLLECTIVE SECURITYY

HELP IS ON THE WAY /

He'll live to be

NYONE, except a new, Inexperienced

Aa hundred

would have recognised

it as a normal, now-

born infant.

"Do you think he'll Dve?" asked my friend, anxiously sur- veying his first-born.

"Why, he'll live to be a bun- dred," said the doctor cheerfully, as he gathered up his bag.

-The trouble, with young fathers is that they are so literal-minded about their offspring...

Did he really mean that?'” my frlend asked me when the doctor had gone.

Well," I said, judicially, "your son can expect to live fourteen years longer than you could when you were born."

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

tall him was that the average span of life when he was born was not three-score-ycars-and-ten, but 48 Fears. To-day, because of the health services and the advances "In medical knowledge it ̈ ̈ls"about"

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And that is still only half of the life-span which the biologist from his study of animals would nscribe to man. Because in animals wo And 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.

N human beings the wisdom-teeth may be Asaid to complete the body-structure. Those appear at 23 or 24 years of age. Five times that gives 120,

Burgeon General Thomas Far- ran, of the United States Public Health Service, has been telling a Committee of Congress how wo could add another ton years to the life-span, how we could give the Psalmist's "three-score years and

800,000 More Shelters

Orders for further-800,000 domes- tle steel ir-raid shelters at Home have been placed. Plans have been made for intensive production.

The first delivery of 100,000 shelters. to householders will soon be com- pleted.

Sir John Anderson announced in the House of Commons recently the names of the 12 A.R.P. Commissionera who will control regions in England, Scotland and Wales, Twelve deputies have also been appointed, and it is expected that these zamen, will be announced at the sante time:

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appointed by Sir John Anderson to investigate the Finsbury deep shelter scheme may be made publle before Easter.

BASEMENTS

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 polley to such an extent that, far from aiding the Spanish people against an alien invader whose aims and objects were no less inimical to our interests than were Napoleons, she has passively een asked by the Food Defence Wholesale, provision firms have alded the dictators to achieve their object,

Plans Department to form groups to Who can doubt now but that Mus-war-time, one firm were put out

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nofiri and Hitler'' intervened In of actius its business would be con- Spain, not to crush the "Reds", but tinued by other members of the to crush, if possible, the democracies group under Government supervision.

Experiments in the strutting, of basements have been concluded and In ̈report on this form of protection

may also be made soon.

by RITCHIE CALDER (REPORTING PROGRESS)

ten" to the average woman.

man and

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 if only the knowledge which is now available for the treatment of tuberculosis. or prevention pneumonia, canter, and other diseases could be fully appiled.

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EMEMBER, we are living in the Golden, Age of Medical Know- ledge. Greatoi advances have been. made in the last 25 years in the study of human weaknesses and diseases than at any period in his- tory.

40 years, but what right has the Chief Medical Officer of Health to talk about the rate "approaching the irreducible minimum" when other countries, are doing so much better?

Especially when well-to-do suburbs of London can show an in- fant death-rate of 32 por thousand births compared with 114 in, for instance, poverty-stricken Jarrow- on-Tync.

Through poverty and the dis- 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 sacrificing 50,000 human beings who, but for poverty, might have lived a full ilfe span.

That is the grim side of the reckoning.

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-1——— the deaths through tuberculosis and the other 'diseases · which struck down the labouring classes before they.repbbed '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 at is not good enough. In- deed, another generation will con- sider it disgraceful, The infant death-rato in Now Zealand is less than half what it is here. !!!

It is true that the infant death- rate has been halved in less than

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N the credit side, we have the great strides which have been made in preventing or treating human diseases—the rupid decrease in the death rate from tuberculosis and infectious diseases, the vast im- provements to hospital methods and, prophetic of even greater advances, the growing knowledge of how the, human body works. Belenco, in finding the keys to Nature's secrets. We are learning how the glands, which promoto growth and control the processes of living, work.

From these we can learn how

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"Yesterday 7, lost control of the car, and drove past

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men and women, grow old. In animals, scientists have speeded up- the life-process. In human beings it may be possible to slow it down. prolong the life-span. Wo may be- able to adjust the balances as a watchmaker adjusts clock.

For instance, It is now known that in the pituitary, a gland no bigger than a pen situated at the base of the brain, there is a chemical-producer which acts ns.

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counter-balance to the tiny glands, "The Islets of Langerhans" in the pancreas. The "Islets" pro- duce the insulin which controls the amount of sugar in the blood.

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TOW it that sugar is ex- cessive, it causes. dia- betes.

But if, 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 counter-checks and postpone the decline.

In the last few years we have. been given drugs which doctore de- scribe as "miraculous."

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Prontosil !” the red antiine dye converted into a powerful drug by Gorman chemists, makes it por- sible to wipe out deaths from child-bad fever.

Its offspring "Morid B 603.” produced by a British firm through study of "Frontasil" has had phenomenal results in the preven

tion

of deaths from pasumonts, meningitis and other geim dis- cases.

Books on medicine are out of date before they are a year old, so rapid is the advance. Every week brings something now.

Maybe my friend is the father of a centenarian.

Germans Not To Marry Foreigners

Berlin.

A law is to be issued shortly by the Kelch Government forbidding marriage between Germans and

sexes.

foreigners.

It will apply to both Present marriages are not affected by it.

It is probable that a "zero hour" for lovers who are already enged 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"

Gerinan girls consider it a great privilego to be able to marry a man of foreign nationality, as by obtaining the passport of another State they can escape the wearisome responsi billties now.

heaped upon thera. This new measure, which will sure "Germanic purity" in the future is considered in Berlin political cir- clex D a symptom of the radical policy which has hitherto marked

year.

It is not yet known whether the Inw will forbid marriage with Ger- man-speaking nationala" of "other States German-Americans, Germans in Poland ani people of Croch, Hun garian and Swiss blood.