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Escapists may want

to try this method

EEP FREEZE may be the

answer for those seeking
immortality. But, though rats,
mice, hamsters, even dogs have
survived freezing, for man the
elixer of life is as ‘elusive as
ever.

The biologist “is not ob-
viously near to achieving sus-
pended animation of a warm-
blooded animal at a tempera-
ture likely to result in a stable
state,” one of them toid British
Association scientists in Glas-
gow last week.

But, said Dr. A. S. Parkes,
FRS, in his presidential address
to the zoology section, “he may
do so unexpectedly at any
moment by some _ ingenious
stroke.”

Dr. Parkes, experimental
biologist at the National In-
stitute for Medical Research in
London, spoke of a_ golden
hamster which could be re-
suscitated undamaged after
supercooling to minus five de-
grees centigrade, or freezing to
the extent of crystallizing 50
percent of its body water.

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Victims of cold and exposure
may sometimes be regarded
prematurely as dead, he said.
“At zero degrees centigrade the
artificially cooled mammal has
every appearance of being
dead. Yet under appropriate
conditions it can be revived.”

Dr. Parkes spoke of the ex-
citing possibilities of long-
term preservation of cells such
as spermatozoa for insemina-
tion, ova for transference to
another animal, red blood cells
for transfusion, and tissue and
whole organs for transplanta-
tion.

“Stretching away beyond
these more or less realistic
ideas are thoughts of whole
animals, possibly man him-
self, preserved indefinitely in
a state of animation suspended
by cold.” :

The view that adult non-
hibernating mammals. could
not survive being cooled to a
deep body temperature below
15 degrees centigrade (at
which point heart and respira-
tion failed), has been exploded.

Recognize China

ics House of Commons would make a great contribution

to peace and our economy by immediately recognizing
the government of the People’s Republic of China,” the
LPP National Committee declared in a wire sent to Prime
Minister John Diefenbaker last weekend.

It called upon the government “at this very dangerous
moment to the peace of the world and to the lives of all
Canadians to exert all its
government of the United States from aggressive inter-
vention in the internal affairs of China.”

Recognition, support for reunion of Taiwan with its
motherland, China, and support for admission of the
Peopie’s Republic to the UN “would have the important
effect of making possible the opening of large-scale trade
between Canada and China,” the wire eoncluded.

influence to dissuade the

O ONE who is seriously
interested in world affairs,
the labor movement and
Maxist theory should fail to
get hold of the first September
issue of the new monthly,
World Marxist Review (ob-
tainable here at the People’s
Co-op Bookstore, 307 West
Pender Street, price 35 cents a
copy); to read it is a rewarding
experience. A few examples
will perhaps give an indication
of what I mean.

An article on U.S. policy in
the Middle East, provides a
vivid insight into the under-
lying causes of the war crisis
in that area, and the motives
behind Washington’s reckless
course in provoking it. A more
concise and illuminating treat-
ment of this topic would be
hard to find anywhere.

What do most of us know of
the tie-up between members
of de Gaulle’s cabinet and the
biggest banking and industrial
interests in France? On this,
the article by Jacques Duclos
on the fascist menace and re-
publican unity in France is
exceedingly informative, as
well as most timely in view of
the impending September 28
plebiscite on de Gaulle’s draft
constitution.

To turn to the opposite trend
in world politics; the mighty,

tidal movement of social trans-’

formation in People’s China is
described in an admirably suc-
cinct summary of the present
stage in socialist construction
there; while a short note on
methods of on-the-spot discus-
sion and criticism sheds light
on the workings and growth
of socialist democracy.

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With the financial pages of
our big business press herald-
ing a winter of worsened un-
employment, the contributions
of participants from a score of
countries (including Canada)
to a symposium on this topic,
organized by the editors of the
magazine, take on particular
interest.

The picture of common
problems and the exchange of
experiences in labor struggles
ranging from Uruguay to the
Ruhr, to Indonesia is intensely
interesting; but its value is
further enhanced by a remark-
able contribution on the
present stage of the industrial
cycle, by the Soviet economist
Arzumanyan. Theoretical and
practical political economy are
thus conbined, in a way that
invites both study and discus-
sion. -

Active trade unionists and

political workers will un-
doubtedly get enjoyment and
benefit from the materials of
this symposium.

503 ot %

A key question in the debate
over fundamentals of Marxisin
that is now raging wherever
right-wing elements have gone
overboard in adulation of
“Sure democracy” and repudia-
tion of the concept of workers’
rule, is that of the state.

A study entitled “Socialism
and the State’, prepared by
two Soviet political scientists,
provides a point-by-point re-
futation of revisionist positions
on this question. The article is
an education in itself, and will
be of help both in individual
and group study.

Only a few highlights of the
contents are touched on here.
Reports’ on activities in the
working class movement and

Author subpoenae®)
‘as expose complete,

UTHOR Albert E. Kahn
A says. “Where and why I
want to travel are none of
Senator Eastland’s business.”

The author of The Great
Conspiracy, High Treason,
Sabotage! and other — books
made his comment in connec-
tion with a subpoena served
on him by the U.S. Senate In-
ternal Security Subcommittee
headed by Senator James O.
Eastland.

“Senator Eastland has an-

nounced that his committee’

intends to question mé about
a trip I am planning to take
to Europe. The senator’s ac-
tion is a characteristic mix-
ture of arrogance, insolence
and contempt for the USS.
Constitution.

“The right of Americans to
travel abroad is a basic con-
stitutional one, not dependent
on the whims and dictates of
bureaucratic politicians. Where
and why I want to travel are
none of Senator LEastland’s
business.” 3

The action is, among other
things, “a brazen attempt to
interfere with freedom of the
press,’ Kahn argues, since
journalism “is one of the pur-
poses of my trip.”

In addition, he sees it as a
sort of one-man effort by
Eastland to reverse the U.S.
Supreme Court.

“The state department - il-

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September 5, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—