blood transfusions

went forward swiftly and in good order... I saw schoolgirls pleading with the nurse to accept their blood to save the victims, and the nurse insisting on refusal because the girls were under eighteen years of age...

And I saw a man carrying an "X-ray" picture of his heart, which had been damaged a year before, to convince the doctor that it is now strong and worthy of the grace of giving!

And I saw a flock of nuns — Sisters of Mercy — over whom hovered an all-embracing love and a spiritual exaltation; and I saw one of them with my own eyes give of her blood the greatest quantity allowed — 400 c.c. — and I glimpsed her lashes closing over a spiritual serenity that defied the pale tremor on her heavenly face...

And the tears welled from my eyes in spite of me — tears of deep emotion and of joy! For I felt with certainty that there are hearts still filled with pure human giving. These hearts pour out their blood gladly to save some wounded man from death — even if that wounded man should be an enemy!.. Is that not proclaimed by the sealed certificate the Red Cross sends to every donor of blood?:

"An unknown person owes you his life." It does not matter, then, "who" the wounded man saved from death may be; what matters most is the "saving" itself. Blessed be the mercy in the heart of man — it is a breath of the spirit of God!..

An Appeal from the Union of Secondary School Students to the Students, Girls and Boys

In the flood of the grave and painful events through which Lebanon is passing, and in the midst of this bloody strife that has befallen the sons of a single homeland, we must always remember that the victims are our brothers and our kin, and that the blood being shed is our blood — dear, precious blood that cannot be replaced.

The political struggle whose victims today are hundreds of the sons of this wounded homeland — opposition and loyalists, members of the people and members of the army, Christians and Druze and Muslims, all equal in humanity — this bloody struggle must come to an end, and peace, love, and concord must return among all.

In the name of humanity, brotherhood, and chivalry, then, we call upon the students, girls and boys, to donate their blood

to save the lives of their wounded brothers. To give blood for the victims, whatever their deeds and whatever their leanings, is a purely humane act that makes no distinction between this man and that. And the least that the students, girls and boys, can do in the face of the common calamity is to present themselves at the center of the Lebanese Red Cross at the Hôtel-Dieu, daily, before noon and after it, to register their names, in readiness to earn the noblest and most honorable humane reward that man has known on the face of the earth, namely: 'saving the lives of others.'

And the Union of Secondary School Students in Lebanon can only beseech God, the Most High, the Almighty, to keep Lebanon in His care and to restore peace and harmony to its secure regions; He is All-Hearing, Answering.

Ali Jannoun, Antoine Tahoumi, Muhammad Kasti

Dr. Afif Haddad

Specialist, from the hospitals of Paris and America, in women's diseases, genital diseases, and obstetrics, and in the treatment of sterility and diseases of the endocrine glands.

His clinic: Jeanne d'Arc Street — Hamra — near the ABC stores — the Emir Mohammed al-Buwaydari Building — third floor.

He receives his visitors daily: from 9 to 12 and from 3 to 6.