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Alan Winnington

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By ALAN WINNINGTON
LHASA, Tibet
At the People’s Hospital here
T had a modern check-up: X-ray,
heart, blood and so on: . while
pretty, confident nurses from
ing and Chengiu_ tripped
around .the corridors in white
smocks, «
Other patients were monks in
Claret robes, gaudy silk-clad robes,
8audy silk-clad nobles and long-
aired herdsmen in sheepskins.
Modern medicine has caught
on here more than any other in-
Rovation from inland China. Of
59,800 Lhasa citizens, 500 attend
the out-patients department every
day. During the religious festivals,
Na further 500 pilgrims “a day come
‘or treatment.
A living Buddha told me he had
€m cured of a fistula by modern
Surgery, after years of prayer had
‘failed. So if the monks them-
Selves 80 to the People’s Hospital,
2 why not ordinary folk ?
And they do.
All treatment is free of charge.
“treet wizards are finding that
at Pays to tell a sick consultant:
It is an auspicious day to go to
the new hospital.”
Before the three new hos-
Pitals and 13 clinics were open-
ed in Tibet, a few hundred
monk doctors ministered, as
they still do, to the wealthy
the army. The poor sim-
Ply paid a lama to pray.
© medical practice of the
monk doctors is a mixture of
traditional herbalism and relig-
‘on. It was introduced from Pek-
38 about A.D. 710, and has not
Changed much since. It emphas-
‘SeS prayer and scholasticism.
ne of the three monk-doctors,
now Studying modern medicine
in the People’s Hospital, Renchin
~aitso, told me he studied four
“eligious medical books for nine
years and had. to recite them
word-perfect in a single day to
Staduate,
b. “Operations,” he said, “have
een practically ruled out by our
religious rule that it is a sin to
€ anew Opening in the human
- I first saw inside a human
@9domen here When I helped in

&

With collapse of peace talks,

Tibetans flocking to clinics
as hew medicine replaces old

the occasion for festivities in
took a spirited part.

my first appendix.”

The other two monk-students
are in the ophthalmic, and’ the
skin and venereal departments.

Doctors here have their prob-
lems. One peasant who was
cured here declared that now
his life belonged to the hospital
and it was hard to get him to

leave. A grateful herdsman
brought the only two cows he
owned in the herd as a present.

At all points the meeting of
new and old is causing an acute
battle of ideas. Tibet’s chief doc-
tor, Chinrob Nobo, who attends
the Dalai Lama, told me that all
conceivable medical knowledge
already exists in the Buddhist
medical scriptures. :

“Tf you know the scriptures,
and follow them exactly, no

did not regard it as contradictory

British forces (left) have resumed full-scale warf are against’ the Malayan Liberation Arm

the war is growing throughout Malaya.

Malayan Communists strive for negotiated peace.

SINGAPORE

Despite collapse of recent peace
talks between Communist lead-
‘rs and the chief ministers of
Malaya and Singapore, the Mal-
@yan Communist party will con-
tinue to strive for a negotiated

Deace,

_This is made clear by publica-
tion of an eight-point program
adopted by a meeting of the

|Malayan Communist party’s cen-
‘tral committee.

Points of the program are:

@ Ending the war in Malaya
on just and reasonable terms by
negotiations and abolishing the
emergency regulations.

@ Malaya’s independence and
the end of colonial rule to be
achieved ‘in the quickest pos-
sible time,” with talks to decide

Completion of. the highway linking Tibet with China was

Lhasa in which these dancers

to prescribe auteomycin for
pneumonia, one of the worst kill-
ing diseases in this rarefied air.

Renchin Pintso admitted: “We
consider Tibetan medical therapy
best, but we think we can learn
something from modern medicine
in surgery, ophthalmology and
venereal disease.”

At any rate, Lhasans with
acute appendix now have a choice.
They can “add more fire” to the
system by using ‘herbs from the
sunny side of mountains, or go
on the operating table.

To more and more, the
scalpel seems safer. The new
medical services have handled
700,000 visits and 155,000 vac-
cinations.

And maybe the biggest sign
| of, advance is ‘that Tibetans are

patient can: die,” he said. And he | now willing to give and receive

blood transfusions.

Malaya’s relations with the Brit-
ish Commonwealth.

® “Within the shortest pos-
sible period” Malaya’to have a
fully elected parliament which
could draw up a new constitu-
tion. The position of the sultans
should be respected.

@ All citizens to have the
vote at 18 and “all to whom Mal-
aya is their motherland and who

Chiang

agent

blew up plane

LONDON

For a bribe of nearly $100,000 a Chiang Kai-shek agent
sabotaged an Indian plane carrying passengers from the Chin-
ese People’s Republic and caused the death of 15 people,

said a British Colonial Office

statement last week.

The plane was carrying 11 Chinese officials and news:

Big businessmen
given posts on
U.S. spy board

WASHINGTON

A super control board for for- |

eign espionage work has been
created ‘by President Eisenhower.

Last week the president est-
ablished an eight-member board
of “outstanding citizens” to re-
view periodically the foreign in-
telligence activities of the United
States government.

The board will deal particular-
ly with the work of the Central
Intelligence Agency, which is di-
‘rected by Allen Dulles, brother
of John Foster Dulles, U.S. Sec-
retary of State.

The activities of the Central
Intelligence Agency are mainly
concerned with espionage and
sabotage in socialist countries.

The board’s “outstanding
citizens” include some of the
biggest of the country’s big
business men. 4

One is Benjamin Fairless, a
leading executive of the U.S.
Steel Corporation. Another is
Edward Ryerson, chairman § of
the executive committee of the
Inland Steel Corporation.

A third is General John Hull,
former commander of U.S. forces
in the Far East and now presi-
dent of the American Manufac-
turing Chemists’ Association.

Joseph Kennedy, former U.S.
ambassador to Britain, is on the
committee, Dr. James Killan,
president of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, is chair-

man.

are loyal to her” may become
Malayan citizens with full demo-
cratic rights and freedom of as-
sociation.

@ Malay should be the state
language, while other languages,
including English, should be re-
cognized especially for educa-
tional purposes.

@ Increase of wages, reduc-

tion of rent and interest rates

Paper men to the Asian-African
conferennce in Bandung last
April.

It blew up off Sarawak after
leaving Hongkong. All the pas-
sengers and four of the crew. of
seven were killed.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry
declared at the time that it was

by secret-agent organizations of
the United States and Chiang
Kai-shek.”

The British government’s state-
ment said that after an inten-
sive inquiry evidence had been
received that the agent — a
Chinese airport cleaner called
Chow Tse-ming—had four times
admitted that:

@ He sabotaged the aircraft.

@ He was promised a reward
of $600,000 Hongkong (near-
ly $100,000 Canadian).

He used a small time-bomb.

He intended to flee to For-
mosa — the island held by
Chiang Kai-shek.

The man did, in fact, escape to
Formosa, and when repeated re-
quests were made from Hong-
kong for his return the Chiang
Kai-shek authorities said the de-
mand “was not based on legal
grounds.” :

The British statement added:

“In asking the Nationalist
authorities to hand over Chow
Tse-ming for trial Her Majesty’s
government could not, in the ab-
sence of an extradition treaty,
base their request on legal
grounds.

“They pointed out to the
Nationalist authorities, however,
that it was in their own inter-

should be cleared up.”

y (right), but the demand for an end to

for peasants, efforts to develop
national industry, agriculture and
commerce, foreign enterprises to
be allowed but they must observe
Malayan laws.

® Opposition to war and sup-
port of peace. Diplomatic rela-
tions with all countries, promo-
tion of friendly relations with

Britain, ‘particularly economic
(and cultural ones.

“murder deliberately engineered .

ests that this outrageous crime f