FRANCE: Chimpanzee Present?

The Pasteur Institute and the French Government are generous patrons of renowned Dr. Serge Voronoff, the tall, deft Parisian surgeon who grafts fresh, invigorating glands into animals or men who seem to need them.

Last week the august patrons of Surgeon Voronoff sent him forth, upon a yacht, for eastern Mediterranean waters. Officially he was on a mission to the French Mandate Of Syria, there to improve the wool yield of native goats by gland grafting, as he has already done with sheep in Algeria (TIME, Aug.11, 1924).

But at Paris fellow surgeons discreetly discussed a rumor that Dr. Voronoff has gone to the Near East to invigorate a very great patient indeed.

It was said that President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, called the Ghazi—"The Victorious"—but now somewhat debilitated by incessant, nightly champagne tippling, would confer with Dr. Voronoff in the inconspicuous city of Adana, some 30 miles inland from the southern coast of Turkey. The chief question of vital interest was whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human so unscrupulous as to wish to profit by the poor beast's loss.