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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1984
Felecia
THE DON'S. DAUGHTER HAD
NATIONAL BABY
By Margaret
0
Lane
London,
NE of the most interesting results of the National Health Service is going to be the disappearance of one of our dearest snobberies, I mean the snobbery which, until this mo ment, made its impossible for a middle- class woman to have a baby in the public ward of a hospital.
I know it is not fashionable nowadays to talk about "classes", the accepted term is "income groups", but for the moment I shall unrepentantly talk about working class and middle class, and overy- one will know perfectly well what I mean.
In the past it was unthinkable for a middle-class women to go into a free hospital to have a baby; or if some financial pre- dicament made it necessary, it was concealed as a disgrace. A generation ago this attitude was reasonable. Free hospital treat- other ment was for the poor: people could afford to pay for what they had, and in return
comfort they expected
privacy.
IN
Fees go up
B0
and
Philip says it in 40 words
Phillp is the firss child of novelist Sarah Campion.
Walght at birth: Bilb
© Weight at present (twenty months: 30th.
Height: 84in.
© Cirth: 22in.
• Fint went upstain Himself at 10 months
by
Ing.
A woman in labour is too Intent on the job to care much where she is, no long as she is having the best possible atten- tion,
Walked at 14 months. Could say some words at 11 months; now has a vocabulary of about 40 words.
Has fod kimsali since he was 10 months old,
✪ Travalled from Grenoble to Paris on the luggage rack of # third-class raliway carriage at the age of 18 months.
common
spreads to all classes and the hospitals become meeting ground and a school for good mixers.
Balance-sheet
more
"Cabinet Minister? Oh, non British atom scientist on holiday,"
London Express Service
Economic Stability and the United Nations
A MATTER OF
F it was the aim of the Soviet Government to undermine the prestige
of the United Nations- and who can doubt that it was-it may claim a fair measure of success. The endless battle of words has silenced the voices of гca- son and common sense... or so it seems to ordinary, humble folk who turn away confused, bewildered and disgusted.
السد
COR DEATH
BY
PAUL Well-known political commentator and former correspondent of the BBC and The Observer (London).
ANDERSON
are
that hospital mind." This ta and received, and by the fact that it one must first destroy Com- sembly and made public it is proud
Besides, nursing homes them selves are not what they were. High costs are making them shabbler every day, while their fees rise, and the paying patient is getting steadily sourer about poky racms, tasteless food, and fluff under the bed.
From this diMculty National Health
Service
the has
offered a new and rather ironic
1
doctors
was Another discovery
working-class mothers the the same word resented They obscurely felt she getting something for nothing, and regarded her with faint but perceptible hostility.
This difficulty, I am cortain, way out. It is like one of those will disappear in time, as the
the Health magic offers in which a dilemma can be
fairy red se
if the princess performs a dis- agreeable task. In other words,
have her baby
for
she can nothing, instead of at a cost of two or three hundred pounds, if she will go into the public ward with her humbler sisters,
!
'Imposition'
WHEN the National Health
of
Service
PALESTINE.
For woulity benefits.
use it."
world Copyright Reserved--Londen Express Service).
WILL THERE
how
falsehood by ronging it facts and reasoned
world. Not only for the Europe. the
and culers, but governments
The Riddle of the
the
све elso
about
of
that their
economic
SERIOUS PROBLEM prosperity.
It
STATISTICS
any
CHARMINGLY CASUAL OVER HAIRPINS
HE life of Felecin Mc- Clusky lasted just long enough to be a good joke.
Her story-sho was the only. Wren to serve afloat in minor war vessels-is told in one of the stories in, a book about the sea and R.N.V.R. types
"Wavy Navy."
Felecia.
LIFER
in a spare
a third officer, lived,
cabin of an Aidio
trawler, and won the affection lof, every member of the crow,
No, ginsa, was, evor- raised in the wardroom without a first
given moment, a certain percentage of transitional employment, ie, of men who toast to Felecia. The seat at have just left one job and are one end of the hornchale sofa about
take another one. was hers alone. She became What alone matters is that, the the ship's angel, a, now kind of demand for labour should al-figurehead. ways be as high as the supply.
Three officers, all those rat- In the USA. Britain, ings. Bub no jealousy. Scandinavia, the British Com- For although her name was monwealth and many other printed in full
\
power
to
the
not
LOW MINIMUM
Those hairpina. . sistant toward
The as--
and Bwopt
thie. cabin. every Then he rescattered hairpins in front of
"They're as Jealous as hell of her name on the letter rack,'
Me-
on the ward- countries long periods of full roam, letter rack, Felecia, war- employment and all-out pro-time fore-runtier of Harvey duction have strengthened the the Rabbit, existed only in
and influence of free imagination. trade unions and brought about Only privilegod Visitors '1 for the peoples of the world task of raising living standards a steady rise of the real wages the ship were allowed to peer This is a fact to be recognised this is truly
levels
both and
of living, inside Felecia's cabin, to ma standard a matter of life and matter how. deeply one
and industrial The Soviet worker, on the other val at the beribboned pyjam pro- agricultural denth, for economic Once
case (the under- hand, hos no means whatsoever created, or
assistant steward' may regret it.
and stability
the production in all
giri
friend had sent it to him, the impression of the United Fress
developed countries (particu- to improve his position. The
and he dare not use it in the and the Soviet "trade union". is. Nations futility persists, and very basis of world peace.
The tople vill come before larly of Asia, Africa
fo'c'sin)... the scanted soap once undermined, the people's
United the N. Assembly in the form Middle East) must occupy the "HIS" organisation but, on the in the
...the hairpins, of the "Organs the last few years this,
What did apparently make ND all these little rubs were confidence
United United Nations for many years contrary, one of a report by the than situation has changed. The her angry was something which
compensated, Nations' ability for constructive
come (if not for several of State power" to which the Economic and Social to Nations'
the Western Soviet worker is subordinate. to is so has nothing to do with National according meanest nursing home
this particular action is difficult to restore,
Even before this re- generations) Council. before us. and middle-class Health,
which she
That is the tock expensive,
and
the As World has every reason to be calla mother, by the matchless care atti- which
she and depleted,
hor
of its achievements baby However, in order to achieve port is submitted to Incomes
00 the family tude, on the part women who spend
possible to list a few basic far. savings on private fees are apt nurses, which demands "obedi instead of spending a minimum munist
As a consequence the Soviet polished Make no mistake about it-- facts. without understanding" to think enviously of the many ence
of £181 she spent £13 4s. 4d against
it is precisely this measure of worker's standard of living-morning. con- from its others
National who have their
patients. Working is one year's
Felecia's Insur-arguments.
First of all, there can be no
progress and of positiva always much lower than that the mirror, and always placed finements free.
class mothers have always had ance, of which £0 was returned
doubt that, wherever post achievement which so deeply of the Western worker-has one carefully on the tentre of to put up with it, but for in cash
war developments CASE IN POINT
remained disturbs the Communist rulers, remained educated women
virtually unchanged the corpet. it is hard to
mothers like -be
undisturbed by Communust for they know better than any- and fixed at a very 10W herself this in her conclusion: swallow.
Jad's a "That for
poet!" said the Here, then, is a case in point.risings and civil wars, economic
cause minimum level since the end arst Heutenant. "It is largely with the mothers
the most important recovery has surpassed, both thrives on poverty, misery and of the war while British, Wist- that that the future
The end came soon after the of the scheme One of la lles.
and And while Instructed European on the agenda of the in volume and in speed, even despair.
American baseWren officers were asked use it freely, items If thoy her. Intelligently as their right, it present (arth) session of the the most optimistic expecta- lo pay Up-service to the workers have, enjoyed a very laboard to a party. was will succeed, If they
allow United Nations' General As- tions. This is particularly true policies of full employment rapid and continuing rise of prejudice.
false
or sembly pride.
concerns the problem for the countries most directly and
development their standard of living, fallacious propaganda to keep of
to achievo and/or affected by the wholesale de- the Communist sub-leaders During the United Nations said the first lieutenant to, the them out of its benefits, we shall maintain full employment and struction of the last
war, Lo. arc also instructed to practise debates on full
employment Buhen one morning the captai stability throughout the countries of Western such
tactics designed to bring and economic stability the all be losers. Give it a chance economic
brought into the wardroom tho exact opposite of Soviet. representatives wall
presumably make their falso sub-lieutenant was to Joitt.
signal announcing that a new No wonder that ordinary folk claims and childish accusations.
The Wrens at the basa. Fad dre confused and bowlidered. What really matters in these seen the signal. and realiseJ true that is undeniably
The doublo-talk' and 'upside- debates, however, is the that Felecia's cabin would be mass unemployment remains a
down-logies of the Com- measure of agreement and needed. So a draft chit fol scrlous problem in
the two mundats are indeed a confusing concerted action *among the lowed. former enemy countries, Ger- thing.
free powers to extend to an Third
officer many and Italy, but even
even wider region the policies Clusky was to report ashore. there
re- economic post-war
of full employment and "the With kit. has been faster covery
than
guaranteed minimum" through "Å low-down trick," said coutu be reasonably expected
Take the attitude of the over higher
men. production--and the
But Felecia had to after the end of the war.
Soviet representatives at the ever higher production through go. Elsewhere in Europe as well U.N. during these full em- ever higher investments.
the United States and
debates. Brazenly ployment in
of the countries Commonwealth pre-war unem~ Soviet
British
they claim that only the Union has completely virtually solved ployment abolished and industrial pro- and duction as well as the workers' ployment has ever been known But in the Episode of The standard of living has risen there. To "prove" that the free Forged Map the Arabs see no beyond all expectations. In all world cannot rid itself of un- even greater danger. If the these countries fuli employ- employment and therefore disputed terrain aver became ment-the sine qua 었습니다 of of social and economic In-
Israel Incorporated into
sho económic
stability and pro- stability-they point to British would also have absolule con-sperity-has become a reality.
statistics of so-and-so many THOMAS Dewey, the man troj. over the headwaters, of the This does not mean that the rogistered unemployed at any who broke up New River Jordan.
Flask of establishing world given moment..
York's "gangs and ran twice economic" stability" "Is" a This would be a life-and-wide
True enough, such statistics for the Presidency, was ac- Abdullah's esger one, today than, say, 4 do, mt rexist - danth, matter for
in the Sovicused, the other day of hay Union for the people. It would be possible few years ago. to do the river and deflect First of all, full employment reason that no Soviet workering committed a felony. the waters by pipes and conalas not a thing that, once is permitted to quit or change York's governorship; Congress Truman bright his to feed the thirsty Neggy de achieved, can be kept and en-his job without being authorised sert 130 miles to the south foyed like a precious posses and directed by the authorities man Walter Lynch, called on recipe for a new breakfast diel
to resigns; or face impbachi ---
Papchicen as the Large Soviet En- Jordan as a river would for sion. Like peace itself It must Or,
very this panicareas thes alt practical purposes cease to constantly be guarded and de- cyclopaedia puts it the ment
In reply,
Dewey accused a Furthermore, the de- whole mass of workers are "someone"
ate 90. fon of CRE exist-and so, would, the king- fended.
among his oppona inne plate
other. Put” buffer “And” browi fence of our présent level of subordinate to the organs of ents of malding what he called sugar between each of thes prosperity and the rate of State Power". Ke
"The most violent false Top with marahmaine sauce : Fantastic as this might seem cconomic progress and expan- ад the other hand, the charges"
brown In' overbo
verve, win at first, the Arabs believe, that son by the tree world depend, statistical
Ho, said: "Somebody is crazy fresh strawberrie cvidence of, say
THEY £200 million Israel pro largely on the development of 300,000 transitional unemployed or committing a crime. I'll de
are banging, sign nn. irrigation the to spend
so-called undeveloped in Great Britain is not proof of tide.
campaign with a big white, caprini S or would go a long way towards and under-developed countries unemployment at the same Lynch,: a loyal, Truganite. signs point the way to publi
whether to take court action. the
the lampposte öf New York, Th meeting the cost. medveh dof the world-a task which has moment, far more than
Bls shelters for workers to becouses Dewey of 300,000 vacancies · aro Greater engineering feats than hardly yet been tackled. saw an omen of peace. Jordan from an authentic original bus tale have been done before, and
step-areas, put her complaint into the from a forgery.
Jordan belleves the scheme to "POINT FOUR fact that full employment (and lay up to £30,000 to
aside as candidate for thủ gove Civil. Defdice Chiat "Arthu even a severe shortage of mari- be perfectly feasibleRÁN hands of the United Nations and was content to be judged.
*ing for At any rate, she would not as for example,
while it is recognised, power) has in no way affected ernorship so that he could run Wallander his choses 90 build
-again - himsok.
USD 13: Takeshif in President the British"-workers' bosle Later Dewey said in à broad-shelters. Ther kro koties tha and THE forgery,
v, it is claimed, put it past the Israells.
Trauman's famous Four Point freedom to choose and change inst ayyinisters Those old sm
that President Roosevelt none," he said. Any kind. 'o of International purveyors.
shown signs of having
This now fold, piled upon Deolocation, and Indeed in, his job how and when he will. agreed to stand for election as of cover is botter than non forms the slant manyan totements by the in any FREE Industrial system Governor of New York in 1910. But these shelters are not th Nothing that she has to tel skulduggery William le Queux been altered and marked with
Government, that the there must therefore be, at an excelving United Nations in British to the worldng and E. Phillips Oppenheim, a new boundary ing giving so old hatrede,
Ai Drunken by last yui từ các quan will be nows
to Imwel an area of territory fig-saw the class mother, who has used the never thought up a plat
which is occupied by Jewish asked to sort out. free hospitals
Somehow the balance must bo always been math Jordan's allegations.
forces to this day.
between the diapoastased matter of course, bist it will be she charges Irael with fal
Wives nows who dread the
Nations
Service
lished I heard
was
Arst estab
women many
declare that it was an imposition to make them pay compulsor
they Insurance because
avail themselves of never, never
its benefits. Now they are begin- ing to feel less sure of this, for nothing affects one's opinions so state of one's radically as the pocket.
now presents The question itself to all middle-class mothers: "Chuld I bring myself to have a baby under the National Health Scheme, or must I continue,
old prohibitive cost by the method?h
'Forged Map
EXCUSE FOR WAR BECOMES OMEN OF PEACE
NICOSIA, Cyprus RUMPUS over a little corner of earth about the size of the City of London almost sent Arab troops into battle against Israel a few weeks ago.
It looked like war. The Many go on as before paying Arab Legion was alerted fees they can ill afford because and a mechanised battalion they feel they cannot forgo the privilegé
was moved up to the front
of their class, They shrink from the loss of privacy. to meet what Jordan still
Does it matter?
[OW important, realis, is
HOW
refers to as "an act of ng- gression.”
But no shots were fired. The met in the opposing forces
the privacy to the patient? At triangle of territory at
this moment most usefully, a
middle-class woman
answer
tter personal question. Sarah
professional writer daughter of
1
junction of the
has given Yarmuk
to the Jordan Campion, A
and
AEL
Kenneth Macaulay
the
andy) rivers, glowered at one another, and then retired.
At that moment the
a Cambridge, don, has chosen to have her first child under the Health Scheme, and in book
called "National (Ernest Ben 10. d) Haby has written an account of her experience for the guidance of other women like herself.
Jordan now alleges that the made not world small maps were
the many costsifying the frontier, line and
of having a baby. (My own can fooling the United finements, I remember cach coat with a forged map. woll over £209. In fees alone,
Dynamite
could supply would be a valu- able boost for the light indus- tries which give jobs to 30 per cent of the Jewish working population.
dom.
the
poses
held ADD Fund and the fenced-in Jews.
Two words"
Jordan does not say was responsible for giving the knap-enaker a forged map a work on but she is trying to find out.
It began, the United Nations and that not by any means in
official The fiation is one Harley Street, but in a modest has been told in E
university memorandum by Jordan, when
ward bald square milos of tex nursing home in a
the trude between the Arabs town).
and the Jews was negotiated ritory was dynamite, at Rhodes 18 months ago, and.
The hospital mind
THE loss of privacy, she dia
covered, meant surprisingly little. She was able to cultivate detachment over the occasional of students in the presened anto-natal clinic,
the emulstice line fixou...
This line wyma* marked on
fow steps
(
phone coned of përce. At
*'evening I stood on the
outskirts of the hillside village of Abou, Ghosh, near Jerusalem This little township is entirely *Arab, and 'li is one of the few
non-Jewish com
JORDAN has a reply routes left in all farasi,
mape, each in two parts, show- JORD those who my that alter from the terraced gardens to the other mod southern an, it would, give so Title ax came an old Arab carrying his halves of Palosing. They were tra elbow-rom.
* hos over his shoulder.” Overtaxi drawn to a scale, or one and a
kara van spah sing him and going to his OND half miles to an închipu
She points out in Wils only co-operative farm" came a blond few stenak from the disputed aroung New, striding triskly tor When put together, the halven madea large est about terrain de the decupation of the wards his supper and evening What, the minded much more 40 wide, and it long. Both squat Rujintie hydro-electric rock.
was the long waiting
bench with other.
women at each monthly.
| Karachimgidē Faktinə signed, thepi - power angel Awidok pi wodid jná Aruk faised: -his-barid; to ba: being wasbenderand Remus Rave the Jews millions à" yest
the
But
has been
the economic question that no form of unein-
very simple
Dewey Is
T
(London Extrem, Bürcles),
Accused
By C. V. R. Thompson
NEW YORK.
His Democrat rival for New
him
after the
financiers to pay a debt of abs
£70.000,,
CONFESSION from vil mil
tionaire Glenn McCarthy during a Los Angeles' court, elso ---- have no idea of the size of my fortune, but my income, is de **1,000,00 moza than 1,000 (£357,000) a year. gollers
finitely.
FROM his travela Presiden
wife:
and
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