Voronoff Assailed at Big London. Meeting

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 376, 9 June 1928, Page 9

Voronoff Assailed at Big London. Meeting

“Monstrous Methods ’* VIGOROUS PROTESTS MADE (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) LONDON, Thursday. A meeting organised by the Anti-Vivisection Society crowded the Caxton Hall, Westminster, and overflowed next door. The speakers vigorously protested against Professor Voronoff’s experiments. The Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. W. R. Inge, among others, wrote describing them as monstrous, and deprecating England's welcome to their originator. Miss Emelie Lind-af-Hagevy, who founded the International Federation of Anti-Vivisection Societies, who presided, said the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, who had welcomed Professor Voronoff, was speaking in the House of Commons on the new Prayer Book. If Britain became a race of semi-monkeys, the result of the Prayer Book controversy would not matter.

The well-known actor, Mr. George Arliss, said that if Professor Voronoff’s ideas were carried out, this would be a world of devils, skulking about devouring people to prolong their own lives. Let them keep clean the bodies God gave them, and not dip into messes brewed in Voronoff’s filthy kitchens. The Duchess of Hamilton said the Church of England had failed on this terrible question, pleading that it could not be involved in medical matters.

The resolutions passed included a protest against “the revolting practice of grafting live monkey sex-glands into men, women and children, as being offensive to morality, hygiene and decency.”