World of Devils Skulking About Devouring People to Prolong Their Own Lives

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6631, 9 June 1928, Page 7

World of Devils Skulking About Devouring People to Prolong Their Own Lives

Voronotf’s Ideas Monstrous and Revolting

Vitriolic Deprecation at London Meeting

United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright

Received Friday, 8 p.m.

LONDON, June 7.

A meeting organised by the Anti-Vivisection Society crowded Caxton Hall, and overflowed next door. The speakers vigorously protested against Dr. Voronoff’s experiments.

Dean Inge, among others, wrote to' the Society describing them as monstrous and deprecating England’s welcome to their originator. Miss Emelie Lind-Af-Hageby presiding, said that Sir W. Joynson Hicks who welcomed Dr Voronoff was speaking on the Prayer Book. If Britain became a race of semi-monkeys, the result of the Prayer Book controversy would not matter. George Arliss, the actor, declared that if Dr. VoronofE’s ideas were carried out this would be a world of devils skulking about devouring.people to prolong their own lives. Let us keep clean the bones God gave us and not dip into messes bred in Dr. VoronofE’s filthy kitchens. The Duchess of Hamilton said the Anglican Church had failed on this terrible question, pleading it could not bo involved in medical matters. ■ Resolutions included a protest against the revolting practice of- grafting live monkey sex glands into men, women and children as being offensive against morality, hygiene and decency.

Toward the close of a sermon in Westminster Abbey last Sunday, Dean [nge stated that he regretted there

was being honoured, and applauded in this country to-day a foreigner whose theories and schemes were revolting to all pure-minded people. It was disgraceful) he added. The Dean was preaching on the subject of “ Holiness.’ ’ The congregation waited expectantly for the name to be divulged, but the Dean closed without satisfying their curiosity. Later he informed interviewers that the man was Dr. Voronoff. “It is monstrous that this man’s claims to be able to extend life by the interassociation of apes and humans should bo listened to,” stated Dean Inge. Dr. Voronoff, who is at present in France, replying to Dean Inge’s suggestion that the monkey glands treatment is an insult to religion, points out that Catholics highly endorse tho treatment. Dr Voronoff states: “I have performed operations on three priests, and one of them ordered the celebration of a special Mass as an appreciation. I lectured at Toulouse, in response to tho Catholic University's invitation, while the first monkeys ever received from Africa _ were shipped to me by a Catholic missionary.”