1952-04-05 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 5; 1952.

Throne

THE PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE QUEEN

an appraisal of the new fount of counsel around the

beginning with a matter which in the light of past events dominates all others. A proposition is advanced: There should be a Master of the Queen's Medicine

HE Queon; on this

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48th city of Her reign,. Has a› dividid Household; consist- ing of those who have lost their jobs because she is no longer Princess Elizabotti;. and those who are under notice because the King is dead.

All however, are busy, Mati 1ers are being arranged,

But they are not being rush- ed. The customary six months' rodice to officials on the death of the Sovereign is being DX- tended. The Queen. has said: "Let the old, team stay together until after the Coronation, Let

SHOULD THESE THREE NAME A MAN TO GUARD THE QUEEN'S HEALTH?

SIR CECIL WAKELEY, President, Royal College of Surgeons

DAME HILDA LLOYD, Prezident, Royal- College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists

SIR WALTER RUSSELL- BRAIN; President, Royal College of Physicians",

to make a dimeult decision when there is disagree- ment.

for political ends. The committee system began.

my farmer staff lend a hand in has become honorary rather than one doclor with the plain re

can executive, Sir Arnold Bax may sponsibility the meantime.

solemnly be reassigned,

Then we

Eor! things out."

the

dcclare.

This will

precedent, be no for no Monarch since 1504 has appointed a Chief Physician,

A vital post

But towards a nomination for the vital post of "Muster of the

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Their dismay

The

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Docs thin explaári why there was no doctor at hand when the King died in the night; al Sandringham?

The Queen's health, robust now, wil bo at all times The deep concern of her people. Soine onc person, it is now argued, should be held respon uible for s care. For the politita; Argument against Having 1 Chief Physician is nonsense in the 20th century.

IF

They await-

the Queen Telies an

advice of famly or friends

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These three, to be sure, could'

10 standing lett a federal practiiloher of command the

have, it is hoped, a strength of respect of specialists. He would

character to win the position, of if not the title, of "Master

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A diagnosis is one thing, and the free Presidents Sir TYPEWRITER THAT TYPES BACKWARDS many Brilliant specialists may

Brain, of the Royal may agree upon.it, But a course of Walter Russell

College: on Physicians: Since doctors, however,

another thing; and Sir Ccell Wakeley, of the be of equal skill but

varying action is

Royal College of Surgeons; and In the old team, drom

personality, It has happened the specialists may be left un-

doctor decided In such circumstances. Dory. Hilda Lloyd,, of the Lord Chamberlain to the rhlet

This, say doctors in advance, and recently-that one

a man of Lord Dawson's calibre Royal College of Obstetricians clark at the Royal Mews, numes Medicine" no stops are likely to will be a weakness in the chain has dominated his colleagues

is needed. will be reviewed and,

Gynecologiats, in some

be tuken. Members of

the with his quality of leadership. the of protection guarding

like And in serious allments cases, changed: but one appoint-

profession are deeply Queen's fortunes. It is a weak- med leat

Such a man was Lord Dawsont mong who loot Wcelyng 10 meter about thin how anxiety ted in the buried and of Bonn, physician to King the lung growth from which the

the

George V. He assumed the using was suffering, delay, in may well be shared by

no longer relevant past.

can be more dangerous a to deed, public, wishing health unto her

official role of medical chief Majesty,

Elizabeth the First had a Chiut his Sovereign and performed it than a decision to undertake an

exhausting operation, a Portuguese Jow brilliantly.

journali Flic Queen, if

professional follows Physician,

Medical Press, stated: "It was the Queen's Medicine.", precedent, will appoint about 25 named Rederigo Lopez, But

with A fresh sense of dismay He could be a second Lord physicians and surgeons to the Spanish spy accused of trying

attended that we read of the

uneasiness Dawson All these to poison the Queen gave Lopez's Medical Household.

of Penn. He could fellow-conspirator. NOW the men wha will be a Master of

will be front-rank men, and

the Lopez, an weak evidence, was King George VI were the provoked by the persistence of the Horse. And, no doubt, they will carry on. with

Dawson af Lord

in his lung symptoms after what carn the nation's gratitude, and quartered equal hanged, drain, the Duke of Boaufort will con- normat Jobs eye surgeon, in 1594.

medical knowledge; but there appeared to be an attack of in- tinue to control the equerries, ear surgeon, gynecologist-un-

one among themTL to fluenza in the spring, for this to servants, lees they are summoned pages, grooms, stable

So it was decided, from then whom the rest looked autom- could only have one meaning.

when the royal royal home.

for leadership

subsequent examina and to supervise

"The to have no Chief Phy- atically stables, stud, and kennels.

use his pri- concern for the King's health tions, culminating as they did In a decision to remove a lung. There will be a Master of the They will have equal status.sician who could

made it only too clear that not Music; and even though the post There will be no "chairman," no vileged closeness to the Monarch became serious last May........

even royalty can hope for Immunity from one of the most notably increasing of modern (malignant diseases, neoplasm growth) of the lung."

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was no

However much we may dislike Franco-

SPAIN DESERVES OUR HELP

THE Americans, I have read in some British

T

says

newspapers, are build- VERNON

ing an immense military roud from Cadiz to Seville.

The road between those two cities is remarkable in many

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respects. Near Cadiz itself who has just completed passes hills of shining an end-to-end tour of 11; between strips of

the country evaporating sea water.

crussea

A question

any.

TN September, before They have not one single air-omcial bulletins were issued, M.S.A.-Economie Co-operation Administration into. Mutual field: equipped- to deal with a

American specialists 'were soy- So much ing that the King was suffering: Security Agency-is little more modern jet bomber. thari a change of names, it has would have to be done to defrom a growth in the lung. nevertheless caused' a slight velop the Spanish ports and air additional delay whlet has felds, so much is being done in deeply disappointed the this respect in North Africa, that there is now much less talk in Spanlards.

the Pentagon than there was a дро about the few months great milliary potentialities of Spain,

At the end of 1950 the Import

Spain 624 Export. Bank- lent million dollars, but so far only about two-thirds of this loan has been allocated, mainly for capital necessities us goods and such fute and cotton.

Was

It is not disputed that by the time Sir Cièment Price Thomas called in to remove the King's left lung the right lung was also affected.

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True, the King died of heart attack, which his doctors could not possibly have fore- scen. But after the operation This is welcome

they knew he could not live: many more months because of And this may have two wel-his lung trouble, come results. One is that the

Now the question is being- will be lesa States United than

reginte posed: How can Queen Eliza- anxious to support which still uses military courts beth the Second, in the calm of for the brutal suppression of its sound health, find a second

Dawson of Penn? political opponents.

Hit-or-miss?'

It goes on through Jerez, with two Castiles there are immense areas which might produce far is bodges in which valuable more if they were farmed with sherry pours out of hoses like

At the end of 1931 Congress more efficient implements 11 water in suburban garden. tile iron-shod ploughs or more rapid In Washington voted 100 million

eattle wide avelling country where are bred many of methods of traction than a yoke dollars to Spain, but this la not of oxen (although in many enses 34 so many of us believed-a the bulls destined to be provoked modern methods of tillage would special immediate and uncon into bewildered fury and then

be disastrous, since the subsoil ditional grant to that country; it

The other is that there will killed in the bullrings of Spain. is hardly deeper than that which is little more than #promise

bo economic eid, But the truth is that there is covers-or, more accurately, in that at least that amount will nevertheless

covers the African be awarded to the Spaniards out through the proposed' M.S.A. along this part still

in Madrid,

TT is ourgested, that the hit- to the of the ɔtal American ulloch micalon

Spanish people, and it will be or-miss method of previous tion of help to Europe.

controls Monarchs should be abandoned. given under stricter

would have been likely if They have chosen their doctors private patient Spain were judged of the much

maltes his cholec by the re utmost military” importançe.

commendation of a

relative friend And when they felt

1 sign anywhere

road of

bulldozer a

American .1.

handle, to realise

the

of

Two things

One is And after driving through

DI* an continent).

You have only to pass 2 General Franco, I have rend Spanish tramcar, with its pas- clsewhere, hus rejected the sengers hanging outwards from American terms for Spanish every

for better trans- rearmament as being humiliat urgent need

Americans are ing to the dignity of his com- port. And the patriots. But the truth is that also interested in the possibili-

ties of increased output There are no such terms.

minerals from the red and ochre American atd to Spain has not mountains of Spain. yet reached even the stage at

these report On the Caudillo has been which asked to accept or to retuse. national resources bus also been

slow to produce results.

The other. is that their country

less interesting from It was presented in the first is place to E.C.A.

milliary paint of view than they the recent and niuty American of E.C.A. into had expected:

Slow on arms

The Spaniards are learning, with considerable ustonishment and distress, that the machinery of a great democracy works slowly.

Last August General Spry arrived in Spain to prepare a report on the military value and possibilities of that country. Hls report has been studied by the War Department and then by the State Department. Within the next few weeks it should lead to the appointment of mixed military group, American and Spanish, to negotiate the leasing or airfields, ports rights and so on.

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Only then might the question arisc as to how to reconcile General Franco's Bense of national dignity with President! Truman's desiro to convince Congress that controls in Spain would adequately protect the Ameriçart taxpayer,

-and on works: But to tho Spanturda, the military olde of American aid is rek lively unimportant.

They are interested rather

to develop their resources, hotels and light is

caplast of their

In

houses

uses the

lamentably dim

and filckering,

but there are · · large: --

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end to end, while might product!

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acres.

power:

many

In Don Qahatby. La fulmèflik,

in Extramadura, Loog and

But

the

And although transformation

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The Spaniards are beginning to realise two things.

of their vociferous that country from end to end they behaved like anyone else that many supporters in Congress are in- am more convinced than ever and sent for the doctor they

in Spain only in So that Dur dislike of Generalked most. trasted far as it can give them party Franco is no excuse for per- On this favoured doctor, not political advantages in Washing- petuating the heart breaking necessarily the best quailfed available; the Monarch poverty of a dignifled and Hard- man ton.

would rely to call in further working people.

if the help

trouble looked: serious. When the King felt

could better he

dismiss lila doctors -- even against their advice.

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FROM this focus on one uspect of the Queen's Houre hold, un to consider all those who stand an1the steps- of the Throne, and wha con- be consulted in entergency or crisis.

To assess their posen- tialities, it is first, necessary to see how far the Queen- herself can influence the course of political, and economic events lit this her Realm.

When we know that, we can, with a more under- standing eye, estimate the qualities of her adilsers. Next Saturday, therefore, ap- peare an expert and Intriguing article!"

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