OF ONE BLOOD ALL

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

OF ONE BLOOD ALL

AMERICAN and Canadian newspapers recently told of a mishap in a Chicago hospital by which the wrong blood donor was brought into the operating room where a patient lay ready to be given a transfusion. Two hours after the transfusion the patient died. It is well known among tin' ] > 11111 ii - th.it there arc f • cl.t-~.-s »i l)lon<l. divided according to 1 lie i-oiiiMili-.-live- factor —tlu- property nf tin- blood whicli makes it. thicken in tlownig from a. cut. If it wiTc lint for tliat, Vull would bleed to ilotvtli from a pin prnk. It is not {rencrally known tluit .1 blood donor for a t ran-fii-ion may Iμ- of any branch of the human race, provided his blood is of the same class as the blood of the person who is to receive it. Let us suppose, for example. Adolf Hitler, or if you will, Benito Mti—olini, to l>e in immediate need of a Idoo.l transfusion to save his lit"- , . Let. 11- -u,ipose, further, that the blood of whichever one of the two you choose to select for this supposition is found to he fit, the B class, and that of the bio.. I donors at hand there is not ope nf "pure Aryan blood. - ' whose blood is not nf I either the A. C or I) cla-'S, but that

(here is a donor at hand whose blood 15 f Hi , the I! clns*. but who is oiit-ide the t -.i.-red circle of racial ■[Hire Wood" |, c-!,i hli-hcd ilii-tatol'iiiliy by Hitler and t Mii--..|ii,i. ' I) In -nr\\ a bypotlietieal -it.uat i<m. the li 1.[...,, 1 tit' that I! class donor, no matter t \\ !:«•! hff In: wire a, nc;ni. a (hinc-c or i nf any other branch of hu 111:1 iiity, and h :ni matter what hi< creed or his politic;il or economic ideology, would have *. Iμ be ti-ed. If the blood of any one ot I lie "Arvau" donor... were Used. Hitler, or Mu--olmi, would die :. 1 alter tie; I 1 a 11- I u-i' in. It i- -trance that. Mii«.«.iliui who lias bi-i-ll believed to be t a 111.11 lof better intcllcci than Hitler (tlioiijih Hitler iia.owiil a 'jrcat deal of his 11 success in sii-li"n-\ iiijr power to hi- i=cinir underrateij by his oppoiipnts the earlier stages of his way) liould havi" descemled to adopting Hitler's doctrine of -pure" blood. Both ii.' and Hitler would lind that the hypothetical blond traiwfusioil emergency we have just imagined would make it necessary for them to accept into the veins, artel ies and hearts blood not "'pure'' but merely human, if they were to continue living. Paul, the Apostle to tilt" <.entiles. was no biologist, or economist or polituui i'lenlucii-t. But when on lii-; second niis-.-ioiiarv journey 4ie was in Athens ancl

old those who listened to what he iad .0 say that "God hath made of one ilood all nations of men, to dwell on all he face of the earth," he uttered a liological truth, more than 1000 years ie I ore the iirst feeble misiMOseopes and , cb'scopes began slowly to bring . m uroved seeing and knowing to human | icings. , s>