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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

cith

re

filled. It is merely proof of the former assistant. Jos asidents in the congesto

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