1950-05-13 — Page 8

Sure. Jos, 1geT you!

I storm co and

they're off to disunily

and confusion.

Tallyho! Anything,

to weaken Democracy?

by

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1950.

NOTT-BELGODNED FAT-HEADED ANTI-RED HUNT

MAYDAY MEET

World Copyright by arrangement with Dalis Herald.

A discovery that

helps

PROFESSOR

J. B. S. HALDANE

T

UE must striking advances in medicine in the last ten years are the discoveries of penicillin and streptomycin.

7 doubt if they are the most impor- tant in the long run, because we may hope some day by hygienic measures to' ke the germs which they kill as 1- important as those of cimlera or leprosy are today in Britain.

The work which I am going to describe relates to a group of disenses which attack us before birth or very soon after, and whose unture and canse were unknown ten years ago.

mothers

worrying about.

Well, on

Sefton Delmer's Newsmap traces a strange tic-up

SIR JOHN BLACK'S MONEY-AND THE

AUDIENCE THAT GETS LESS...

D

URING the war, when Like the Moscow Marxists, the Czechs and Slovake British Marxists have proclátai- wanted to get news of the means of distribution and ed their ambition "to socialise what was going on and production." pick up a little morale-build- ing encouragement as well, the two fundamental

They, too, ire at war with they listered-in 10 the on which resistance

concepts R.B.C

munism must be based and

Com

with it resistance to Moscow' political war.

No other radio service had anything approaching the same following. The Soviet radio and the Voice of America devoted many Jours

They have no A day to Czecho- 2 slovakia, But it was the B.B.C. that people listened

Britain's Socialist

Are opposed to the inviola- bility of private property

10.

respect fur

the Rule of Law. Only last week the House of

Commons was asked to approve a plece of legislation which strikes at the roots of the Rule

How is it today! Mr. X 10ld of Law.

ine.

Such, however, Is the de- Voice of America, The

he terioration in our conception of says, comes easily thai. Next is public morality that not even the Paris radio. Then the Swiss The Tories have made a fighting radio broadcasting in German, que of it and challenge: the which most Czechs understand. Government to a division. And then, a long way behind, comes the B.B.C.

Apart from the Friday costs of Sir Hojert Lockhart, which pre discussed and have public, nobody bothers about the D.B.C.

But there is no mistake about this. In introducinst retrospec- broad- live legislation to lax the Bruce money is made to Mr Lurd widely and Sir John Black, Sir Staf- Inge ford Cripps has adopted the much er-Stalin theory that thi expediency of the State knows

T-

Meaning lost

Which is all

more markable when you think of the large number of Czechs with British affliations, either because they fourtht in the British Forces during the war, b.cause they worked with British Commandos in Czecho slovakia, or because business interests connected them with if its citizens which were per- Britain!

DI

Now why this change?

No deterioration

DO not believe-and Mr K agrees with me that it is to any considerable extent due to a deterioration in the quality of the ...'s output since

the war.

ITIZENS can have no feeling of security in a State which

Tes

is allowed to punish, by truspective legislation, octions

fertly legal when they were committed. Once that happens all laws lose their meaning.

It is no accident that the Communists were nhlr to terrorise their way to power in Eastern Europe after the war by of typically exploiting a piece

trospretive legislation.

This proclaimed that the owners of any firm which had worked for the Germans during The Americans naturally cone the war were to be expro- first, because the Czechs turn, printed, that any citizen Who

to them as the aders in the had "collaboratid" with the defence of the West against the Nazi occupiers was to be im- prisoned at a criminal, perhaps

Soviet attack.

But

that does not explain even shot. why the British lng behind the

French and the Swiss

the

The fact that there never

I had been any kind of law in the

non-Com-

Benes's fear

were un-

as Mr Lord are un-

The key to their understanding was an experiment which began when Land- Steiner, an Austrian-Jewish refugee in

The que ication is one that part defining collaboration" or New York. injected a monkey's blood

should make salt of up and making it a crime did not worry inte rabbit, just as the key to

think: The Czechs do not feel Conservative and

members of the that the Britnin of today ha munist the understanding of hurterial disease

various cualition Governments moral authority In the wa: Pasteur's investigation as to why

Idrological battle against Mos. that took rover in Eastern ubstances with different crystalline

A healthy, happy baby is the pride

air cow's Marxism which she had Europe after the liberation. of any family.

ral that halted one Londoner yesterday in the forms are fermisited at different rates.

ideological 290. LYUR after evaenatimatte ugainst Naziem. Here is the problemu.

The

has would have killed over 20,000 poor mother Almost everybody else's

people, rut We worried about) When I first heard this I was About one pregnancy in 260 body

been immunised by her

tals which kilhd 200, contains substances earlier babies, and the anti- ends in the baby's death,

which

learn to bodies you can

DANGER TEST (which is what the birth. after

responsible for froon Jaundice, dropsy, or treat as foreign intruders. substances

her immunity These substances are in her blood

and they blood of the We now know that these called antigens, For all symptoms of the are inherited.

and destroy their blood cur- en che of about nauč in an of tham,

Alter your second electri, and one aga for shout one-trish inheritance is a very simple WHY THEY DIED

One of the rules of their puscles, " of all till-hirtha and more

one indeed Thur a twentieth of ot! death in the first week of it). Nobody has an antigon

is one antizen that breaks the m

the treatment life.

which was Bot present in the baby nurs been at

other of his or her You can cure the anaemia by m. at at my

Ledere

somvemia.

!!*

dieuse. which

10.

The danse is confedit to ona or a few, families, It one baby ; trente, has died of it,

in may cases all the others will di se unless the correct treat- ment is given.

(though there

SAVING BABIES NOW comes the applica-

tion to saving babies' lives.

stuntshed and mer dulous. But,

MOLLABORATORS thinking it over, I can well see

popular-just how the Checks have

come to hod this view-on}{* of them and Sir John Black

but most of Popular with large sections of| woman quite consciously, are called 55 you soak into theith it, you Fare file to worry vets. The

without Rh married to man, them unconsciously and irstine- the British public.

really appasting later babies alatt If you me you have a thog is at I must agree with

are

An irilast your fourth chite

A test on a drop of your blood!

11.

was known .. www obvious

Bet

blo a corporeles are mangel.

***

nu „pital,

S

Their ambition

same

Benes did not dare stand up for the principle their ease In- volved for fear of being called

a friend of collaborators.

The Tories apparently. smilarly afraid of challenging

are

accused

If the and try to havINCE the war we have been 3 division on the principle in-

ruled by

men who admu volved in the Black and Lard www.g. poguttens rouuld (for insane, in the Social Cas; for fear of bring

bista tram tusen]{rty ciflem 1048 forewart of being the servant of these

te Communist Manifesto") "Privileged capitalists." Why apple dater in regard that they take their pohtival pretat bles hom

That is the kind of thing that programine from the woman who does not privats

undermining the authority Calculator the Rh antigen, and what bloost

supgarh tim Bources as the Communist Party of

the B.B.C. in Communist- will therefore not be attacked by the people

tun thousand years or so most of in luscow.

cccupted Europe. without th should the ant-bodies from the mother.

by natural role-

No, on thinking over, I But even when this was done have died out many of the babies died. Tameet every body has it.

fit, Anel in China and India.

the industrialist she don't blame them for listening- recently

frum escaped

Carehol in elsewhere. back enough new blood cells. Thi

I belave int The Enopeans localia and whose articles oppeared to many of the old ones

in xture of a

Jace on this page last week, Some mothers treat their being scrapped that the liver was my farm a

with Rh mad a race without it. inbies as they would treat overwhelmed by them and the

This was

guess when I first made it." But Dr Moureau has far more exciting and far rafts of somebody else's babies dea of jaundler.

So nowadays in severe eases &wn that the Basques, a people, skin. Almost all these baby's own bloed is taken spea mothers are found to lack a out, usually through the navel guage, lack th about as often as speaking a very aucjest lan- certain antigen in their string, at the same time as new hot.

blood is pumped into it.

DISCOVERY

FALSE CLUES THE STORY

of how the cause was found out is

more intricate

detective stories.·

than most

I will try to present the blood corpuscles. evidence, not as it came

for a crime.

wern:

L

Perhaps the absence of Rh comes down lo us from anelent peoples he the modern Basques. who lived in Europe in the old Stone Age, and were mixed with Invaders from the east who and Bh in their veins.

out, but as

This antigen is some- a prosecutor might present the evidence times called Rh, after the

Rhesus monkey, in whose IT was only in 141 that Levine, Burahan Kutzin, und Vogel, blood It was first found. In New York, proved the cause Supposing you have lost is sometimes called D. Only of the disease with certainty, It is lucky that Hitler dll not a lot of skin, and I give you about one man and one wo white Wiener showed how to know about Th, or he might have a plece of mine to graft on man in six lacks it among deal with cases of it due to other

aren, it will the European peoples.

to the raw live for a while and then

a new skin to replace t

all of them

similar antigens.

Moureau, in Belgium, seems to

tasacied the Basques as he did

the Jews.

NEW CHAPTER

die, though by the time it Now when such a woman have made the discovery at the does so you will have grown marries & man who pos- same time, but we only heard of

HAVE fold only the beginning SUSSCS it, either half

the his work in 1945.

of the story. There is reason children 031

British doctors took up

the to think that quile a lot of bud discovery it once, and whereas, conditions in children, including possess it.

before 1943, 12 percent, of the some kinds of mental defect, and Only about once in a babies treated in the Oxford possibly some of the illnesses of someone else. thousand times does

the Infirmary died, the number had pregnancy, are caused in the first baby Immunlse. the been cut down to 23 percent, in same kind of way.

the years from 1943 to 1947, I We aren't sure yet. But Land- mother and die in con- hope its na low ins percent, stelner's monkey and rabbit. You have become immune sequence, but the number by now.

But if you want a second skin graft

you had better : get it from

If you try some of my skin

It will die in a fow days.

to

opened a new chapter in medical my skin. Your blood goes up to about onė in 20

What does this mean to you if history, and will save the lives of

millions of babies. contains substances which if she has as many as four you are an expectant mother? kill cells from my body. children.

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