Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press wednesday october 10, 1973 door of Dick Biel Ishu still treats War wounded by Denis d. Gray phenom penh Cambodia nearly 20 years ago Paul Graywin parachuted into the Middle of a French Garrison about to be Over whelmed by Viet Minh troops. The place was called Dien Bien Phu. For 57 sleepless nights and Days Graywin and four Assis Tants operated on the wounded perhaps to operations. Then the fortress fell. Columns of French prison ers twisted through Jungle trails on death marches to Viet Minh prisons. It was the beginning of the end of French domination in Indochina. But some frenchmen stayed on Graywin among them. Today the doctor of Dien Bien Phu treats the sick and wounded of another conflict living in the cambodian Capi Tal putting in 15 hours a Day seven Day a week at a private clinic and a Hospital. But Don t misunderstand the energetic Broad shouldered surgeon injected quickly. I work without any spirit of i work because i love it. I Don t care for cocktail parties or receptions. I look Forward every morning to seeing my two of his patients Are sol Diers wounded in the fighting around phenom penh. If the War comes to the streets of the capital and the insurgent Khmer Rouge army takes the City the 59-year-old Graywin said he would stay. I am not afraid. They will not kill me. I la just Lake my bag and twice in his life the sur Geon was near death the first time in the second world War when Graywin a resistance fighter was captured by the germans and imprisoned for six months. The a Normandy invasion saved him. time came at die Bien Phu. After the fall Grau Iii treated nearly wounded Viet Minh French and vietnamese soldiers in and around the fortress. After 10 Days the Viet min political officer told me now you Are no longer a doctor you Are no longer an officer you Are now a prisoner we began the March North inwards the chinese Border. Our men were dying of their wounds of disease famine and sheer fatigue. Then word came for me from to Chi Minh. He was grateful for my care of the Viet Minh after Dien Bien Phu and before. I freed after Dien Bien Phu. To Chi Minh saved my life i know that As a upon repatriation Graywin resigned his commission in the French army War had erupted in Algeria and Grau win refused to be a part of it. He Felt also that it was time to he in Graywin helped evacuate thousands of catholics from North Vietnam into the South in the face of increased Viet Minh hostility and the draw ing of Battle lines Between the Northern and Southern portions of the country. A year later in 1957, Grau win came to Cambodia. He has rarely gone Back to his native France since. When he about Cambodia and Southeast Asia his speech sex Paris into a flowing French of poetic cadences. I love the indochinese. Their philosophy attracts me. I love their gentleness their naturalness. There is a True Joi Erde Livre Here and there is a greater Freedom Here than in France or the United when a poor Man comes to me for treatment i Don t ask him for payment when a Rich Man comes he pays. In Europe there is too much paper everything is codified. Such a thing As riot asking for payment would be impossible there. But Here one can prac Tise a free Medicine. The cambodians can accept tragedy and they know How to suffer with dignity. You can Tell a wife your husband will die in two and the couple will go away and the husband will spend his last Days in some Temple and die through a French humanitarian group in phenom penh Gravelle Glauvin has become the Legal father of 62 orphaned Chil Dren. They live with Cam Bodian families but he pays for their food lodging cation. The youngest Are Only months old two of the eldest have recently graduated from College in France. 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