WAR ATTITUDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 3

WAR ATTITUDE.

POSITION IN U.S.A.

COMMENT BY DOCTOR.

MEDICAL RESEARCH WORK.

The determination of the people of the United States to remain neutral in the present war, even in thought, was commented on this morning by Dr. Robert Godsall, a prominent eurgeon of Sydney, and lecturer on oar, nose and throat at the Sydney University, when he arrived at Auckland by the Monterey from San Francisco. He attended the recent Pan-Pacific Medical Conference at Honolulu and has been absent from Australia for six months.

Dr. Godsall, in discussing the attitude of the American people to the war, explained that football headings were given more prominence in the newspapers at the present time than those relating to war news. He told of the manufacture of big Douglas bombers in California, which on completion were being flown between 2000 and 3000 miles up to the Canadian border. As the bombers were not permitted to be flown from the United States to belligerent countries they were landed at the border and Jiauled by tractor across into Canada, where Canadian pilots took charge of them.

Referring to medical research work in America, Dr. Godsall said it was beyond comprehension the amount of money that wealthy citizens left to the universities and hospitals of the United States for research work. He compared this position with that in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and on the Continent—eepecially in England and on the Continent —where, when a person was admitted to hospital, he was informed of how hard up the hospital wae and what the size of its overdraft was. In America the position was so

different, and they really had more money than was necessary. Nevertheless, this wealth was being used with discrimination and they were doing a tremendous amount of "work with it.

Following a previous trip when a boy was sent from Australia to America to have a nail extracted from a lung, Dr. Godsall made a world tour and procured for Australia a biplane fluoroscope, which is used for X-ray examinations for locating foreign bodies in the lungs and in connection with bone fractures. The two planes of the machine, he said, took X-ray pictures at right angles, which was of great value because the patient did not have to move to get two different angles. The fluoroscope, which had just arrived in Australia, cost in the vicinity of 5000 dollars.

Dr. Godsall also said that the antiSemitic feeling in America was very intense and the medical profession there was strongly opposed to the indiscriminate adniieeion of alien refugee medical men.

Dr. R. Godiall.