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I'll never, NEVER, use
a stick, said Bader
A
DAY or two later
came
the moment Bador hnd been 'waiting for. One of the Uxbridge doctors sald: "It's about time you got Your legs. your
new
stumps should be all right by now, so we're sending you over to Roehampton for measuring."
hos- the
Roehampton was a pital in London where Ministry of Pensions carried In the out its obligations. ground were several wooden huts occupied by artificial limb makers.
The RAF car took Bader to the hut of the Dessout
to ter Brothers, who used make airplanes until Marcel Dessoutter lost his leg in an early crash and became in- terested in artificial limbs. Bader was introduced to the other brother, Robert, short, thickset, vivacious man with a big face and a
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YOUNG FLYING OFFICER BADER had been destined for a great 'career in the RAF. Then came his crash and the loss of both his Jags. At Uxbridge RAP hospital he and his friends Peel and Stresifelld used to go for lilicit drives in Peel's old Humber, Bader, tolth a peg-leg and crutches, insisted on driving the car, and it was on one of these drives that he met a pretty waitress at the Pantiles, a esté where they stopped for tea. shock of dark, gray-streaked hair.
"You are an ass getting both of 'em messed up," Dessoutter sald. "Let's have a look."
Bader took hla trousers down and
ittle MG was stored and told them to change the brako and clutch pedala and have rendy.
ou the pylon
He
were the new
incon-
"You've got ten inches of fairly rigid foot sticking out at bottom and you'll have to a bit higher to your log the toe clear."
"All Tight,"
Walker ваш. "Hups-n-dalsy.
atrap and he felt irksomely constricted and uncomfortable,
"I'm
afraid you'll have to have all this harness," Dos- get soutter said: "but you'll wood to it. Everybody doea.'!
Tullit stopped back. "All
40 said, “You'll do. No, mind the crutchen, Hupə-
a-dalsy."
THE CIRL IN THE CAFE "There's a rather nice gli! I want to
This was the moment! Walker and Tullit took each arm round their shoulders and hauled him to his feet for the first time. As his weight came ing."
the right
on both, especially slump, It was the worst lock
wus
take dancing," Boder sold.
momentum when you're mov-
Bader pal to Tuilet and
this damn leg."
utterly helpless and uncomfort- he was
on
the
lift Kel
able to
cripple him.
In
" He put the
to the
the harness Itseif
he ever had. He felt absolutely Walker: "Pull me forward over hellish, wildly unbalanced and
They heaved him forward t right stump strange, His
balanced precariously the weakc right stump. point of hurting and
Was Having his own kuco, he Deemed t
the able quite easily to swing left leg
forward and then he he burst stung despair,
stuck again, unable to
push ab- "Good lond, this is
forward with toe and ankle, impossible. "That's what they all my the
Dessoutter rang one day. was ready for a fiting.
The first things Bäder showed the stumps when he stumped into the hut crutches under Bader's armpits Dossoutter inspected them pro-
and he and Tulitt helped him fessionally and said: "By Jove, motal legs standing up
up. Bader stood firmly on the
out: those are good. Who did them gruously without a body by the leg and it felt fine. Just $0.
Jolutely somehow, more Much for you?"
ning experi- first than the pylon. mentally on it he felt a slight "give" in the foot and Dessou tor explained that it was hinged little rub- at the instep with ber pads Inset to allow a faint, resilient movement. The toe was jointed with a rubber pai, too. Confidently Bader took
BCTOWS
wall. Unpainted, they looked Bader told him about Leonard shiny and new and covered in Joyce and added:
"....so now little rivets, nuts and
out a pair and he was amused to see that it you can trot me of your pins l bring 'em on they and got cracking.
shoca
"Hu, we don't take 'em off the
said,
"We eg, Dessoutter tall 'em to the stumps pretty carefully. It take a couple of wocks.
He did some measuring and then slid thin rocks over cachi stump and slapped plaster over than. Bader watched the pro- cedure with interest, beginning to be fascinated by the business. "Right," said Dessoutter when he had finished, "'ll let you know in a couple of weeks when we're ready for a fitting. Send me an old pair of your shoes Bo cu give you the right-sized feet,"
"Get 'em iixed as soon as you con, would you?" Bader asked. "There's rather B nice girl ! want to take dancing."
"We'll do the best we can for you," Dessoutter said, thinking. incorrectly, that he was joking.
The grin fades
DU
the
wore rocks amt his own
"Ah," sald Dessoutter, aren't they? Look handsome, at those muscular calves."
Bader griturved
REACH THE SKY
about
"You'll be
DA Inch shorter than you used to be," Dessoutier went on,
FOR
The grin faded. "Why? Bader demanded indignantly.
"Gives you better balance. We always do that. If you won! them Longer We
always lengthen thhern.
Lan
"As long as I can be as 101! any girl-friemi,“
"You can marry N
Amazon
} you like." Dessoutter Bakı. -We can make you seven fcev tall."
"They went into the
Alting-
płace roon, a lung rectanggalan with large mirrors at the end In what looked like paralic:
low that a bars, but no
walk could
between holding on to The bars
ן פהן
time," Dessoutier sold. "You got used to it. Don't for get your right stamp has done no work for nearly six month." Brder said grimly: "I thought I'd be able to walk out of here and and start playing Karcs things"
Dessoutter said "Look," gently. "I think you ought to
By PAUL BRICKHILL
walk
PART 3)
face it that you'll never
gain without a stick."
Bacter looked at him fense dismay, and then as
sti challenge stirred him he pugnaciously: "Damn that! I'n never, never walk with a stick!"
his stubbor
unger
with the
he
puce forward om the crutche and the wooden left toe enugh" on the mat and ጀነረ nearly tripped.
"See what I mean about the stimah foot," Dessoulter sald.
1
Hups-a-daisy
tried again, lift- ink his leg like
HE
a high
and
"Pull me, for God's sake," he
said.
This is... awidi !
leg
THEY pulled and
THE
he flicked his right stump for- ward again, and they pulled him on to and he got forward onco more:
left so it
went on in clumsy, stift, jerky movements as they pulled him the length of the room. There was no natural automatic move- ment at
think il; he had to ouch step out in advance
and then signal his mind to make
the move. Whenever they eased the forward tug he fet that the Atticg out iTa front would push him over backwards. At the end he lowered himself on another stool and uttered
to
with grim feeling: "This le awful,"
two" Dea- depressed.
meant 1.
Try a step or soutter suggested.
Feeling he would be more secure staying on the left leg. He tried to swing his right leg forward, but it did not move,
"How the hell do I get it to move?" he demanded.
URING those nexi two weeks Bader,
stepping ward,"
"Try kicking the stump for- unlicensed and unin-
**The Dessoutter said. dirove
horse and walked up right knee will bend automalle sure. Humber
down the room 11 Jot, 243
Then when it's forward, like à one-legged ally. defiance of Air Force
the kick
downwarda stump man with crutches. "Right," he and civil regulations, becomin z
the and it'll straighten out on "let's said with satisfaction, and quite competent
usunity
heel. It's like cracking a whip," fot
have a go at the right leg." steering it to the Pantiles
for- He knicked the stump tea t
became a kind o
them.
ward and the metal knee beat Tulitt brought it over. ritual which Peel and Streal;
for thigh
31 shaped metal felld bore tolerantly. The girl always served him and every
Desmutter introduced two of cylinder that came right up to day the little chit-chat between his white-coated
the groin and strung to it were assistants,
leading up to thick them increased, though jovial little man called Charlie
straps belt, with were never mentioned.
more straps looped Walker, and Tulitt, a big man in the top like a double mili- with glasses. They made him strip to vent
and underpants ry Sam Browne. Tulit pulled "Sock" on the right stump. and then Walker the "below-
eased the stump into the Всер the-knee"
specialist, pulled
socket of the thigh and then short woolly "sock" over the buckled the belt to watch
She was becoming rather im portant to him and he yearned would be for the day the legs
them ready and he could put
on and walk out of Dessoutter's
hut, free and exultantly inde-
bulance,
il
was
The
as the leg went forward). jerked
down the stump the knee straightened is heel hit the mat.
He and
the
WES attached round Butter's
pendent again, almost like he leather socket sunk in the calf lower abdomen over his under-
to be, except. he suv- Used
limp. posed, for a bit of
He would drive his own MG straight to the Pantiles, walk 1 with full-length trousers und no crutches and sit at the did table. Then it would be efferent. Не wrote to the Larage al Kenley where
left stump and slid it Into
of his new left leg. Above
cach side like the ones on
the
That's better." Dessoulte: said. "Now come forward."
Bader suddenly felt paralysed, unable to move. I was like
back chalr
stuck door handle. "How the devil do 17" ho asked irritably "I can't move."
having under
a
D
"It always is the first time," Dessoutter sald "Don't be too al. The first steps ways feel like that. It's learn- ing to walk all over again with ant un entirely new
system. you can only learn it by prac- piano. tice, like playing the
難
be
10
Don't worry. You'll do it, but it might take yout six months." Bader looked at him with humourless erin. "Don't silly. There's a girl I want see in a couple of days and I these want to be walking on things then.".
broke o Flightly Dessoutter appalled silence: "You'll find a
Next Wednesday
"Look, Long John's got his undercarriage back!"
"That's the big lesson you've sticic useful in pushing yourself
Dessoutter said. learne
haven't got any toe or
muscles now
"You ankle you
Just pants, Over each shoulder he calf, metal bars came up on buckled leather braces and then the strapped the thigh corset of the
left leg to the body-belt.
peg-lex, hinged at the lace and ending. in a Lace-up leather corset. Walker faced the corset round the thigh.
"You'll find it a bit different the to the pylon," Dessoutter said.
MASTERS IN
Ꮤ
over the leg in front."
Bader stuck his jow out "Not mel Come to spring aggressively. forward as you used to. on you two. Let's have another That's the secret of it. Or the Bader sat in growing dis- catch. That right leg is a firm
feeling he inay
have to push Was being barrier that you trussed into strait-jacket. yourself
top of, over, on There seemed to be strap after leaning forward and by
by your
WHITE COLLARS
o."
They hauled him to his feet again and this time they took his elbows instead of having his arms round their shoulders. "Try taking very short stepe," Walker sald. "It be easier to
forward over a short step." He tried that and the im- provement Was Immediate, They still had to pull him for- ward, but he did not get quite the feeling of coming to a dead stop whenever he put a jeg for- ward, especially the right leg.
Dessoutter said after a while. Since 1920 the man in this "Let's try taking half an inen advised the Prime off that right leg. Might mako job has Minister on who should get it a bit ensier,”
Political Correspondent DEREK MARKS gives an analysis of what Herbert Morrison, once Deputy Premier, has to say about the Civil Service
HO are the real of civil servants at Cabinet and But from top to bottom of the
rulers of Britain? Many people believe that in the years since 1939 the power of the Civil Ser- vice has so increased that it is the anonymous men of Whitehall rather than the | well-publicised men of West- minster who are our real rulers.
Cabinet Committee meetings aro Civil Service it is diicult to related to the exaggerated be dislodge anybody, Hef that civil servants and not Ministers run the Government."
But much later Mr Morrison gets nearer the truth.
Herbert Morrison today shows how justified are the fears of the Increasing powers of the Civil Service, though he does not
share them,
Indeed, it would be strange it he did share them. For it is largely because of the restrictions
and controls of the Socialist Governments that the present situation has arisen.
Says Mr Morrison in his new book": "It is possible that false impressions about the attendance
-'* "Government
and Parliament: A Survey on the Inside," by Herbert Morrison, Oxford University Press, 21.
Henska: "Is an established civil servant ever dismissed the service? The answer is: Not often.
Powerful Men
"Of course, if he were guilty of such irregularities as theft, bribery or corruption (which are rare) he would be dismissed without gratuity or penalon,
"But the chances of dismissal on the grounds of inefficiency (which is, of course, a relative term) are not great,”
He goes on to concede that "Rather more dismissals on the grounds of inefficiency would be good for the morale, the spirit, and the liveliness of the service."
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHY SHOULD THAT HORTH SLOPE BE SO INFFICULT FOR SKUNG!
· I DON'T KNOW.. THERE USED TO BE A SKI LIFT THERE-
I WANT TO ASK JACK. THE SKI PRO, MORE ABOUT THAT NORTH SLOPE
YES. 1' WONDERED ABOUT THAT MYSELF
There can be little doubt that among the most powerful men in Britain ere the permanent
of Government depart-
heads enents.
What happens if a Minister wants to get rid of his top many
Saya Mr Morrison: "His appro- priate course will be to report the matter in confidence to the Permanent Secretary, to the 'Treasury.
hour
about
knew
these top Civil Service Jobs. Bader pat down and un. And he consults the other per- strapped it, Walker and Tulit manent heads of departments took it away for half an before giving that advice. So and lowered the thigh that, there, the power is centred half an inch into the In the hands of this small group. socket. Bader put it on aguin and without so much height to avercome found that he could transfer his weight with a lit. tle less
trouble,
They down the him up and several more
times and then he of civil servants and State cor- said: "All right now let me go. poration employees who have a vested interest in bureaucracy.
Big Danger
Now there is a great army
Certainly
helped
room
They were too cautious to do 50, so he shrugged his elbowa to push
them
took away and a strong Minister his Arst stops alone, three or "It may be that the Permanent can impose his policy on a de-
him just grabbing the Secretary to the Treasury will partraent. This is what Mr four jerky stumbles that ended fell ask the Minister to let him perk Morrison has found in his own ways and means of settling this experience. Particularly in 1928 parallel bare before he difficulty without change, or it when he set about establishing over. He hung on to them, grin- ng all over his face where again. may be that he will take steps the London Passenger Transport the sweat was shinbig to arrange a transfer. Any change Board.
Turning to Dessouiter, he said: "There you are. You can keep would require the approval of the Prime Minister."
your dame rileks now." WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
So there it is. The Permanent Secretary to the Treasury (pre- sent holder of the post: Sir Edward Bridges) is the head of the Civil Service.
THE NORTH SLOPE? WE NEVER USE IT, MANDRAKE. LETIS SAY IT'S BAD LUCK.
But not all Ministers are as tough, as cocky, or as knowledge- able as Mr Morrison.
Ha carefully detailed analysła of the top Civil Service wet-up underlines the big danger which now faces British democracy.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THAT SOUNDS STRANGED
IT LOOKS NO TOUGHER THAN THE
OTHER SLOPES.
IT'S NOT THAT MR,BENT. LET'S JUST SAY THAT IT'S HAUNTED.
"Reach for the Ski,” by Paul Brickhill, fa published by Collins,
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