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EVE

CHINA MAIL SATURDAY JULY

Marriage? Never any Doctors an

question of it

BETTINA

ENDS TWO MONTHS SILENCE TO

TALK CANDIDLY

ΤΟ

William

Hickey

WEN before Aly Khan died, Bettina was secre- tive and withdrawn; almost a recluse. For five years she lived quietly, discreetly, attentively with the man she loved; asking, it appeared, very little except that she should be with him.

Since Aly's death in a road crash two months

ago she has become, not unnaturally, even more do-go and stay with people whe solitary. She has seen few of her friends, talked knew us and knew about us.

to practically none.

A few days ago she left Faris and flew to Amsterdam. From there she went by car across the fat, peaceful, dyked fields of Northern Holland, to a modest hotel in

a quiet little seaside town.

1

I met her there. And, for the Brst time, Bettina-the bourgeois rallway worker's daughter from Normandy who became first a well-known model, then, after she met Aly, one of the most famous, yet one of the most un- known, women in the world talked about herself.

Does this mea that this beautiful woman who is only 35 will never marry?

Bellina seemed almost not to understand the question...

"I will not marry now," she said again with a puzzled frown.

So different

"In the end, though, I decided to stay alone and work things out. for myself. I felt very lost, although that word doesn't mean anything until you feel it.

"I went to Switzerland for a while. And then I went back to Paris. I began to see people. I talked to his family.

So friendly

'Nor do

intend to mar

now,

she says

"I shall try again spon though. He taught me to love racing."

Three times since she arrived

near his racing stables. Most of their ille together was spent there, and when he talked about "home" be meant Green Lodge and not the other places.

Bettina has moved out.

new home.

"I don't know what I shall do with it, but I don't want to live there now," she said. "I am going to look for another place. It will be in Paris not too far away."

alarming indictment

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

A least 150 mothers atberunt had been made to fad

out whether they were mit

die in childbirth ing from woy Blood dwóch

every year in Britain as before it was too la

of these authors would still a result of gross mis- alive if they had been management or neglect hospital and given blood w

on the part of their fusions family doctors.

Doctors have known for that toxaqmia, one

This serious, chestie lá con-....... mafor calises of childbir tained in a report to be issued deaths, con, usually be pri by the Health Ministry soon by ante-natal care. following confidential Inquiries into childbirth deather.

It immediately raises the question which is to be pursued In Parlament ... of whether there should be some systems of exposing doctors who are responsible for maternity deather: und all

consequences 1 they entall

The doctor who.commita mis-

NO EFFORT

In the cases investigated, balt the deaths due to this darder could have been avoided. If the doctors had been sundant conscientious,

Women who died from heart

conduct, with one of his women fliure during childbirth had patients is struck off the not even had their hear register in the full blare of examined, though some were publicity.

krawn fo have suffered from could rheumatic fever, which wenigena the heart.

CONSPIRACY

overload

Is not the doctor who through reglect roby a young woman of Life guilty of far more serious In other cases where doctore

I realize too that crime?

knew that women were mi who compare a doctor should

Yet, as, this report reveals, he from valve weakness in the understand that, we frequently not only goes un- heart they had made no effort he is not infallibie punished but undetected, for to get them into hospital of this is part of the bas these eases came to Hht only given them special ante-nati as a result of confidential care. inquiries carried out for the The report labels deathe Royal Collage

purpose of this official investiga- ton.

But the

itself the

"avoidable only when there and Gynaecologika was overwhelming evidence of Society of Medical Aa medical correspondent of gross neglect or mismanage Health restorat

current indictme this newspaper I frequently get ment.

birth. And there Better from heartbroken

Commenting on these find-"the serious zone claiming they have lost their

Medical findings, wives through neglect on the ings, the British part of a family doctor.

THE FACTS

imen

"They have been friendly.

Aly's sen was the Mediter- Her life with Aly-whose very friendly. I like them, but it

Some of their charges would ranean, his music was Gershwin certainly seem to be justified name, incidentally, she never once used-would have been, is difficult to think of them as

at her hotel: Bettina has driven his pictures were Hitchcock, and from the facts given in this re- a family. for many women, an impossible

back into Amsterdam to go to his landscapes were filled with port: They are always travelling art galleries, museums, and con-buildings. and moving around going off in ceris, different directions. They are sa rarely together."

one.

The two were totally different in temperament and taste. She, for example, can contemplate her sorrows, He would obliterate

First, about marriage, Within a few days of Aly's death, there were rumours that he und Bettina had been secretly married for some time. Or that they had been on the point of his. marrying when he was killed.

Neither story was true. "We weren't secretly married and we were not geing to get married.

"There was never any question of marriage for us." said Bettina.

"Or, course, I heard these rumours. And there is another, I am going to marry somebody else. That is also untrue." She was quiet for a moment, then she added:-

"I will not marry now."

"I heard Benjamin Britten' A Midsummer Night's Dream A couple of weeks ago, the other night. It was quiet Bettina went to the races at wonderful," she said and a smillè Longchamp. She had been there flekered momentarily. scores of times with Aly, and f he had a

"And the pictures here I have heaven on earth,, Longchamp was probably it.. spent hours looking at the Rembrandts and the Van Goghs. "For the first hour or so it They are very pleasing.” was wonderful. The borses pounding along and the colour and the noise. It had always. "I was happy. I was always thrilled me. very happy," she said.

She was usually in the back- ground; indeed, she was often left at home; she was certainty the least gaudy and social of his *many friends-most of whom were, like him, extrovert, gre- garious, and voluble.

"After he died, dozens people wrote

of

to me and said

1 could go and stay with them.

"

had to

"But suddenly, I leave."

She shuddered. It was the

They were people we had known first and only nie she showed, together and, at first, 1 thought physically, any emotion. Then this was what I would have to she said:

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In the few seconds of life he had left after his smash, Aly muttered: "Look after Bettina."

..

They were his last words and they have been obeyed.

Journal states: "Merely by conscientious and wise applica tion of knowledge available at the time, the ramber of could have material details been nearly halved."

The medical profession can proudly point out that in spite

A THREAT

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Parliament may consider that It justifies a searching. inquir into every death of a mother in childbirth with penalties in ages when nested exper multiagement is extrahabed.

The dull North Sea Ben- More than half the deaths of these lapses the risk from

The more threat of jamin Britten; Rembrandt; and due to bemorrhage in childbirth giving birth or being born in the unexciting plains of Holland could be avoided. Often falling steadily,

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