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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1958.

TO WIND UP THE SUPER-SIZE GILES

Every office knows of it- Career-Envy... the worst brand of all-and men are worse than women...

EMINENT WRITERS ANALYSE THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER

JEALOUSY

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Supposing A woman secs make progress. They can another woman In mink longer march at the head of the At the other end of the busi- coat and passionately wants one

least column; but they can at ness hierarchy, I remember Jike it. We usually soy that do their best to mako the occasion when I had been asked who is "Jealous."

column march at their speed. to nevise on a certain factory But by

that

There remains the fascinating problem. (I was not a member

HOSE drumatic and everybody else in the organisa-

extreme forms of tion.

that may jeolousy end, at the worst, in murder, and at the best in a lifelong, crippling obses- sion. I regard as far less important, in total, then the smaller and milder manifestations of jealousy that we all meet with In

everyday life, and particu- larly in everyday working life.

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There is hardly one

life whose

is not directly affected, from time to time, by the smaller jealousies that arise in every job, every organisa- tion, and every profession.

And there is certainly of us who is not not one constantly affected it- directly by the effect of jealousy on how we are governed, how we are led

in war, and on the direc- tion of the organisation

for which we work.

definition my

need not be Jealousy at all, question of whether jealousy of the staff, and was therefore since there may be

nothing can ever be justifiabic or

desirable.

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In a more or less independent negative about it. She does-not position.)

like the other woman to have a I suggest it is possible to be One day a ma working at mink coal if she has not one. "jealous" nct on one's own the bench quietly suggested to But the remedy that she seeks behalf but on behalf of other me a solution of the problem. not

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prevent

the other people or things or ideas, which are very

It was one of those ideas woman from having mink

simple when coat but to have on: herself.

EXAMPLE you have thought of them. But For this reason I have never the fact remains that neither the agreed with the conventional To take a simple exampl:

that women management nor had thought view

Lcular operations Women are of this

one. Not wishing for jealous than men.. once to take credit for an idea intensely. and most unscrupu- Batly to the public fancy, and that was not mine, i suggested lously ambitious, and, in the those who were supposed to have been responsible for them gained great credit and

TRY. deserved.

by

Nigel Balchin

arc

Author of 'The Small Back Room,' Mine Own Executioner,' 'A Way Through the Wood,' 'Sundry Creditors'

If anyone doubts this, he has to the workman that he should only to read the reminiscences, put his idea to the management. of generali, politicians or any. I would support it.

one else who has held a position

of power, to realise how territy- He shook his head with a ingly often decisions which will knowing smile, and said, "Not affect the lives of millions of me. I know that gume." poople are made for emotional rather than logical reasons.

"Indirect" and "direct"

tion of jealousy..

I said, "But why not?"

the "Because wouldn't like it.

foreman

There's been

more

pursuit of this ambition they are often great koters

!

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Teheran. Lavrentiev, Ambassador

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HONGKONG`A KOWLOON storming obstructionists.

A former member of the four- ed secret police, the NKVD,. turned diplomat, he is mid

to

be a master of dintribe and to combine an unlimited optimism with, an ability to slam doors and bang

than tables better anyone elso in the Soviet Foreign Ministry.

But he is the Soviet's', most unlucky diplomat. His "strong" tactics have brought him

Successes.

TITO'S BREAK

no

t was during his ambassador- ship In Belgrade that Marshal To finally broke away from the Cominform and the Soviet bloc,

have

during the war certain spec-

Lavrentley is said to appealed

that Tito predicted

.would succumb to Soviet pressure.

Marshal Tito was staying al his villa near Zagreb when he was asked to receive the Soviet Ambassador, who was carrying a personal message from Stalin.

Describing this last and final meeting, Tllo has revealed that Lavrentiev had to stand because

this WOB entirely Just occasionally it

was not,

In one instance known to mo Smith thought of, designed, and carried through a brilliant and highly successful operation in the teeth of bitter opposition he had not asked him to sit from Jones

By some complication of responsibility or seniority, which

down.

on

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As Tito was reading the eight-

I never fully understood the page letter; "Lavrentiev Ap- whole credit for the operation proached half a step in my went to Jones, both officially direction, his gaze steadily fixed and in the public mind, though endure it, and before I had me. He could no longer he bad opposed it with absolute nousistency throughout. Snilth scanned the whole letter he asked: When shall wo have an was never heard of.

answer?'

But on the whole they are too prooccupled with fighting for winnt they positively want waste time and trouble. In the mere negative

process frustrating others.

ence described a certain organisation as being "full_of_N

of

who know they Bre

Now

JUSTICE

་

And prominent among those

it WRS very, difficuit for anyone who knew, the comotional reasons is jealousy,

facts not to feet Jealous of Let me try to make clear two chops who've had good people

Jonce on Sruith's behalf — and cxactly what I mean by the ideas here in the last year, and being paid more than they are

he's worked them both

out worth, and are afraid somebody

the feeling had much of the opera- within a month. Don't you ever will And out."

quality of true Jezlousy, since let on that I gave you that That urganisation was more there was not only bitter resent- iden, or I'll be looking for an- full of really ferocious jealousles ment at the lack of recognition other job.""

than any other that have ever of Smith but a rather childish desire that Jones should not receive the promotion, the can gratulations, and the public credit which he hnd done

Nor

he

PROBLEMS

AFTER FEAR...

ND fear is the great

fear is

of

to earn.

"I replied, tersely: 'We shall consider the letter.""

The meeting lasted no more than three or four minutes.

INTO OBSCURITY

That was in April 1948. Then Lavrentlev sank into obscurity. But a year ago, after a split in the Itumanlan Communist Party, which resulted in the purge of three or four leading high-ups— Including Anna Pauker, Stalin's personal protegee Lavrentiev

pro- nothi" for Smith her was rushed off to Bucharesi.

I cite these two examples be- known, for the imple reason TOT long ago I was talking to cause they have in them the that it was full of fear.

n-frlend who, Is a fairly real essence of jealousy as I Junior director of a very large understand the word — that is business. I asked him about his the dislike and fear of credit or problems in the post-war world. success going to another, even A ducer of Jealousy-perhaps

"There's nothing wrong with though oneself is not damaged

its only "producer, Often the wus -Jealousy for juste:-ke the post-warTM world from the

by it.

There he replaced Kavtaratze, zeal for a good Irrational. Elijah's mere completely

who had been Ambassador to THE DIRECTORS in my first often its existence is quite un couse. It Is point of view of our business."

when the "good Rumania for five years. Bold wearily,"All that's example did not merely want realised by the person who has cause" becomes confused with Lavrentiev falled, however, wrong is that of the three men credit for themselves, which is it. It Letms to ise usually ourselves and our own interests to restore harmony among the who really control this outfit, kuthan enough. They wanted (though not always) a product and our own fears that our Rumanian leaders. If, ne has each one would rather see it go to stop others from getting it.

and to trke the sense of justice becomes a title been suggested, the mission was bankrupt thon let elther of the

THE FOREMAN in the second place of the

middle ambition of: odd.

not to bring back Red Anna and other two do something good example did not merely want the younger person.

I once overheard two famous her associates, but, on the con- and get the credit for it."

to succeed and to stand well

is as though at a' certain

actors

talking in a restaurant trary, to send them to the management ng i with the

point in their lives men and "I don't mind people praising exocution squad, it must be re- with

bright Ideas. Ho women man

suspect that their's Hamlet,'" one was Bay- could not bear to see алу of powers are decilning, or at least Ing. "In fact I'm very glad for arded as equally unsuccessful. his subordinates doing so.

After 101 than a year in Frightened by his sake. It's time he had n In my view, true Jealousy this, they cease to be positively success. But for people to go Bucharest, where he is reported

of ambitious and become purely into raptures over always has this quailty

a purely to have acquired the reputation negativeness of a dog-in-the negative and defensive.

derivative effort like that is no) of an all expert, he was moved desire. to frustrato manger

And that, frightened defen- bad for the theatre,

to Teheran, where the BOOND, WIS somebody else rather than the siveness often takes the form.of There were almost tours in his | being set · for his thirilj⠀ his postlive desire to succeed one in furious and Irrational Jealousy, eyes as he pecked miserably at greatest and possibly his last... self, which is ambition,

of everybody who can stlit his salad. It was a green salad.] diplomalle failure.

Now bere the damage done by the mutual jealousies of these three men la fargely "indirect," They may, and probably do, make one another unhappy.

But what is for more im portant, they damage the several thousand other people who work in the business that they con- trol. In order to frustrate one another, they must frustrate

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