The House By the Sea
“It may be that quite simply the clearer air has achieved this miracle, that really blue sea yesterday. I woke at four and had a good long restful think about everything, until six, when I got up. One of the things I thought about was Lois Snow’s A Death with Dignity, When the Chinese Came … a remarkable document about Edgar Snow’s death of cancer of the pancreas and the way in which his Chinese friends, including Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, helped in every conceivable way. We think of a commu...nist country as depersonalized, making machines of men; so it is moving to read about what life is like in a Chinese hospital, where nurses and doctors are truly concerned about the human being, where the human has not simply become a ticketed disease. And of course in the Snow case all this was carried to its limit, as Mao sent two of his great specialists for cancer, four nurses, and two chauffeurs all the way to Switzerland to stay and help in every possible way in the last weeks. How rarely are true friends of any country cherished in this way!MoreLess
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