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If your mother was suffering from an incurable disease, would you con- sent to an operation which would only prolong her agony?
NCE or twice in a life for giving him that time you probably have to chance." decide quickly one way
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ALL six were in favour of saving the life of a mother instead of that of her ndwborn child; ; though Mr. Foster added that if the wife was to be permanently crippled it would be better to save the child.
All six think it right to ask the doctor to give an extra dose of morphia to a man dying in agony from cancer. No oné. hesitated at all in answering this question..
The fifth problem-whether a family man should risk his life in trying to rescue some one from drowning -
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The conclusion was that one. probably, would if it came to the point, but if given the chance
horrible swimmor. Would you risk your to think about it, one would not.
life in trying to save him?
..Mr. Foster and Mrs. Constance or another in a matter of
SUPPOSE your house I. Higgings, licensed victualler, THE other casa raised 4. life or death to some one near
Is on fire. Your father of the Coach and Horses Inn, the question: Should and mother are trapped to- Nazeing, say no, the law allow the extermination gether, and you are able to On the front page of London of a useless imbecile who can rescue only one of them. Or phic retoucher, of Regent's Park, Miss M. Rowland, photogra- newspapers recently were two never be anything but a burden suppose that your wife or thinks one would do it automa stories of men and women who to-society-and-probably to him--husband and child were in the tically. Mra, Pool says it would of being able to sign some one sisters, released after a year in would you choose to rescue?-
Which one be silly to do it, but one would else's death warrant, who know Broadmoor, right to kill their
probably be silly. that if they did not sign, if they imbecile brother whose mental
Mr. A. Tibbs, tobacconiat, of let the victim live, the result condition was such that constant
St. Anne's Rd., Leytonstone, also THREE men, three would not do it if he stopped to Stubbs Rd. would be years of misery and observation was necessary?
women were picked think, but there probably would suffering for both the victim There are similar problems out at random from London's not be time to stop to think. and the people round him. which have occurred to most of eight millions and asked what The third man, a manufacturer, There is no happy solution to us, in imagination, and which they would do if faced with these thinks he would jump in, too. these problems. Whatever you fortunately confront only a very four imaginary and two real do there is bound to be suffering. few. Here are a few-
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hout his parents, would rescue. his wife.
Rather than let the child be LAST question, whether NE of these
SUPPOSE the doctor born a cripple two men would let 1. polls you that your it die. One would operate to motamusure was the most
to save father husband (or wife) or raised the question: wife can only be saved at the save its life at any cost. Should a baby doomed by ne: cost of the life of her newborn cident of birth to be a cripple all child. Which would you choose die, one would save it; the other, course, because of the possibility One woman would let the child difficult to answer, largely, of THE KING AND HIS its life be saved by an operation to save?
unfortunate Mrs. Ivor Pool, of Durweston of or allowed to die
family re- a "mercy" death?
Mewa, W1, would save it if its. percussions. 2. SUPPOSE your grand mind was sound and there was
Mrs. Pool, whoso parents are The week-old baby son of Mr. In common with other parts of and Mrs. Julian
father is dying of enough money in the family to both dead and who has not got Tafel. of cancer, has been in agony for keep it in comfort.
a child, would save the parent. the Empire, Hongkong cannot Chicago, was found to be suffer- months, cannot possibly recover.
he liked the best and the child. but deplore the crisis which has ing from & rare internal dis- Would you tell the doctor to give
MrFoster did not like to answer arisen over the marriage plans of order. Doctors said: "If we him an extra dose of morphía? His Majesty the King. Two operate we might keep him alive, Ought he to be allowed to give
FOUR of the six think issues are involved-one personal, but he would be a hopeless in it?
that it should be legal to exterminate useless imbeciles, the other constitutional., On the valid, mentally and physically."
The others chose the mother first of these, there will be few
though one of the four, Mr. n the principle that the father His mother said: "I'm his of his subjects whose views will mother.
3. SUPPOSE you are the Duncan Foster, chemist, of is better able to look after him- I want him. He
father of a family Selhurst Rd., SE25, said that it self. [not be tinged' with a measure of mistn't be allowed to die." completely dependent on you; should only be done after two (Complete Opera) sympathy for the King, in that His father said: "I think it you see a man in difficulties in independent doctors had given
he should, so early in his reign, unfair to operate. He'd hate us the water; you are find himself torn by conflicting
a good permission. And in no way. views regarding his own desires and his duty to the State. But it is the constitutional issue which is paramount. Of the comments by the London press, the News Chronicle best epitomises the sit- uation-when-it-remarks that "it is for the King to say who shall be his partner for life; it is for Parliament to say who shall be Queen of this country and to re- gulate the succession to the Throne." Admittedly, the King
to exercise his
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I am
to
going
marry
AM going to marry again. Why? the cynics ask. Does the
is quite clear. To quote the rabbit like the trap on his words of an authority, "the rela- tions between the King and the leg? Is human resistance Cabinet are such that the King is so fallible that a man's will constitutionally obliged to take the to freedom wilts at the
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Cabinet's advice, and to lend it glance of a woman's eye? his moral and social support." Strong-willed man that he is, They are easy to ask and King Edward may gird against easier to ariswer. And the convention, but kingship has its answers, according to responsibilities as well as its pri-(several needs and feelings, are vileges; the greatest of these is part of the human map of that the Monarch'a personal feel-every one's everyday life. inga must, in matters which affect For my part, I am, marrying the Crown, be secondary to the again because it is worth it. A
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again.
WHAT would you do?
she spent her childhood riding bare-backed on Mexican cow- ponies; that she has written a novel and a play; that she earns her own living with her own wits; that she admits and examines all sorts of faiths, politics and religion; that sho has a gentle voice and a de- termined chin, a way with horses, and not, as you might expect, a face like a Leicester- shire boot or the clothes `of a -Bloomsbury-bluestocking-these. facts are a contradiction and an explanation.
astonishing confession
They confound these petty specialists who believe that be- cause a woman hunts, playa golf, or has any other outdoor sport. she must necessarily .
look like a ca- valry major. They torpedo the affectations of those penny-wits of Chelsea and Bloomsbury who make intellectual chatter the ex-· cuse for appall- ing make up,.
of a man who did not
succeed at first
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rights of the State. Even in his man without a wife is a house self-respect uninjured, ́ ̈is, I racehorse; not only because we dreadful clothes, dirty finger domestic life, the King is in an without foundation. If you think, not only a tribute to our share many interests, but be- nails, slovenly, carriage and entirely different position from have been married once, it is own common sense, but even cause I know well that in the chicken-run morala. that of the ordinary man-he is ten to one, you will want to be more of a tribute to my future moment of crisis she will say As, for the so-called Mayfair the Head of the State and the married again. Partly for com- wife.
"No" and mean it, or "Yes" and type," I suppose every young Empire, and, as such, he cannot panionship, partly for mutual For it is not easy for either intended it. Because she can man of this generation who afford--to-be-oblivious-to--the help, wholly for love-if it is a man or woman to build up think for herself, and can de- knows his London- and his feelings of his subjects, since going to be worth it at all-und anew the stones of romance on fend or explain her own point world has known, and probably the personality of the King finally, because you just cannot a garden where the ruins still of view, and his actions vitally affect help it. the people's attachment to the Crown. The King's legal rights.
stand.
ONCE in life if you
are lucky and
taxi
helped to encourage, that hectic, Because she can be argued hard-boiled, hard-faced genera- with and will argue. For rea- tion of young women with WHY am I marry-
ing again? It is sonable argument is the breath metallic voices, the parrot brains to order his own life may he un- twice if you are luckier still not merely in order to have a
and the stern intention to re- of mental development. questioned, but if, in exercising there comes the moment when loyal, devoted housekeeper who
main disillusioned. them, he runs contrary to the the thought of marrying a will run my home in order and
WOULD you marry
They will go on being the life- a woman who al- and soul of the party just so advice of his Ministers, grave issue Immediately arise. The particular person becomes as tend my untidy bills. The man ways agreed with you? Can long as the party lasts But present unhappy development momentous as the airman's who marries a woman with that you tolerate the picture of the when the last light flickers, the comes at a time when anything urge to fly the Atlantic a great idea deserves what he will in- yielding little darling who will last glass is broken, the last which would tend to shake the job which must be done. evitably get-adull and un- Inevitably agree?
I have done it once and Inspiring person who will pro
free-mealer has shared a foundations of the Throne might
If so, you are, I suggest with home, when the hired walters well have the most serious con- thought of retrying it several duce dull and uninspiring all humility, still in the kinder- are sweeping up and the early sequences for the Motherland times since. Like Mr. Choate, children. Maybe they are the garten stage. and the Empire as a whole. We the pre-war American Ambas- backbone of the nation, but such Surely the function of a then the bright young thing
workers are going to the City cannot, therefore, but think that sador, who, when asked at a vertebrae beget intellectual gout, woman is to inspire, sympathise, finds there is nothing to His Majesty, who is loved and dinner party what existence he It is worse to marry for to encourage, to comfort when home to except a headache. revered as probably no other would choose in the next world, money or social advantage. To necessary and, above all, to cccupant of the Throne has answered: "I can conceive no do that is to confess one's own stand
They are great fun, but we at one's side as an don't marry that sort, heen, will do the right thing at greater degree of celestial hap. weakness as a man, one's in- intelligent, intuitively faraight- this juncture in his life. This piness than to be second hus- ability to earn, to work, and to ed companion whose judgment FOR my part, after will be the prayer of his sub. | band of Mrs. Choate," I never fight.
is worth listening to, whose
20 years of all sorts fects everywhere; if it is an- regretted that first marriage. I am marrying again, not only views are worth seeking, whose and sides of London life, I |swered-in-Bocord-with-his That it wna dissolved was no, because ale.... is" "beautiful. "approval-is-worth-winning -shall-marry-again-because-we
people's wishes, the name and one's concern but our own. The heaven defended me from an
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has been twice to ly sentimental, quite strictly and his popularity be yet further friends, with our sense of of carriage in a woman is as Russia alone to study Com practical most of all because. enhanced.
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