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Hughes fell out with Woodrow Wilson on the disposal of German New Guinea, which the Anzacs had captured. Said the President, eying the little man solemnly: "Mr. Prime Minister of Australia, do I understand your attitude aright? If I do, it is this: that the opinion of the whole civilized world is to be set at naught. This conference, fraught with such infinite consequences to mankind for good and evil, is to break up, with results that might be disastrous to the future happiness of 1,800 million of the human race, in order to satisfy the whim...
When Wilson asked if Australia would agree to religious freedom in New Guinea and accept missionaries of every denomination, Hughes replied: "Of course . . . The natives are very short of food, and for some time past have not had enough missionary." By irreverence, Hughes won world attention for a problem which he knew to be "very small potatoes and not many to the row." His point: to secure New Guinea as a strategic outpost of Australia's defense...
...human guinea pigs, other investigators simply did not believe that any man could be so lucky as to find 596 patients (out of 600), every one of whom would religiously take pills every day (usually three times a day), month after month. And Dr. Sieve had only the patients' word that they were using no other contraceptive...
...Guinea Pig? The question, "Will my child get the real shot?" was uppermost in the minds of tens of thousands of parents who took children, aged one to six, through Houston's eight inoculation centers, which worked day after day and right through the Fourth of July holiday. Some mothers had pestered doctors, before the inoculations began, trying to arrange for their children to get gamma globulin. A few intended to go through with the experiment, and then blithely undermine it by having their family physician give their children a "sure" shot of "G.G.," as they have come...
...average attitude was well expressed at West University Place by a plump young matron holding a little girl in her lap. "My first reaction," she said, "was that I didn't want my child to be a guinea pig. But then I got to thinking." Other mothers nodded, recognizing the pattern of their own afterthoughts. "It can't hurt them," the plump one went on, "so we haven't lost a thing in coming. We've got a 50-50 chance with each child of getting gamma globulin, and if we get it we know...