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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?

should one doctor be kil đe pendent on the other his ilving.

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LL six were favour of saving the) of a mother instead of that her. newborn child; thoug Mr. Foster added that if twife was to be permanently plod it would be better to the child,

All aix think it right ask the doctor to give an extrose of morphia to a man dy in Nine agony from cancer. hesitated at all in answerinhis question.

The fifth problem-whet) a family man should risk hike in trying to rescue somaje from drowning-wW33 Ne difficult.

The conclusfon was that probably would if it came to point, but if given the cha

Would you risk your to think about it, one would life in trying to save him?

NCE or twice in a life for giving him that horrible swimmer. time you probably have to chance.".. decido quickly one way

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Hongkong Hotel found themselves in the position self? Were the Bamber Bridge

B.

suppose

Mr. Foster and Mrs. Consta

or another in a matter of

THE other case raised 4. SUPPOSE your house I. Higgings, licensed victuall life or death, to some one near

is on fire. Your father of the Coach and Horses I the question: Should and mother are trapped to Nazeing, say no. you.

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 Par Miss M. Rowland, photogri newspapers recently were two never bo anything but a burden stories of men and women who to-society and probably to him-husband and child were in the tically. Mrs. Pool aaye it woul that your wife or thinks one would do it automi of being able to sign some one sisters, released after a year in would you choose to rescue?

same position? Which one be silly to do it, but one woul else's death warrant, who knew Broadmoor, right to kill their

probably be silly. that if they did not sign, if they imbecile brother whose mental

Mr. A. Tibbs, tobacconist, of let the victim live, the result condition was such that constant

St. Anne's Rd., Leytonstone, also THREE men, Stubbs Rd, would be years of misery and observation was necessary?

three would not do it if he stopped to suffering for both the victim

women were picked think, but there probably would There are similar problems out at random from London's not be time to stop to think. und 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. fow. Here are a few:-

problems.

Rather than let the child bet

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ONE of these cases 1. SUPPOSE the doctor born a cripple two men would let

LAST question, whether to save father or tells you that your it die. One would operate to mother, 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 ac cost of the life of her newborn

child from a fire was the most 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 or allowed to die a "mercy"

ita life be saved by an operation to save?

Mrs. Ivor Pool, of Durweston of unfortunate family re Mows, W1, would save it if its percussions, 2. SUPPOSE your grand- mind was sound and there was The week-old baby son of Mr.

Mrs. Pool, whose parents are and Mrs. Jullan Tafel. of cancer, has been in agony for keep it in comfort.-

father is dying of enough money in the family to both dead and who has not got Chicago, was found to be suffer-months, cannot possibly recover,

a child, would save the parent ing from a rare internal dis- Would you tell the doctor to give

he liked the best and the child. order. Doctora said: "If we him an extra dose of morphia?

Mr. Foster did not like to answer operate we might keep him alive, Ought he to be allowed to give :

about his parents, would rescue his wife.. but he would be a hopeleas in- it? valid, mentally and physically."

To exterminate useless imbeciles, The others chose the mother His mother said: "I'm his

though one of the four, Mr. n the principle that the father mother.

3. SUPPOSE you are the Duncan Foster, chemist, of is better able to look after him- I want him. He mustn't be allowed to die."

father of a family Selhurst Rd., SE25, said that it self. completely dependent on you; should only be done after two His father said: "I think it you see a man in difficulties in independent doctors had given unfair to operate. He'd hate us the water; you are a good permission. And in no

way

In common with other parts of the Empire, Hongkong cannot but deplore the crisis which has arisen over the marriage plans of His Majesty the King. Two issues are involved one personal, the other constitutional. On the first of these, there will be few| of his subjects whose views will not be tinged with a measure of sympathy for the King, in that he should, so early in his reign, find himself torn by conflicting views-regarding-his own destres and his duty to the State. But it

is the constitutional issue which is paramount. Of the commonta by the London press, the News Chronicle best epitomises the sit- uation when it remarks that "t 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 private

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FOUR of the eix think that it should be legal

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AM going to marry -again-Why?- the cynics ask. Does the rabbit like the trap on his

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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 sha 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

abide by the constitutional.con- sequences of his action. Unhap- pily, His Majesty has found him- self at variance with his Ministers on this vital question as to whom

They confound these petty he shall marry. But the position is quite clear. To quote the

specialists who believe that be- cause a womanhunts, plays words of an authority, "the rela

golf, or has any other outdoor tions between the King and the leg? Is human resistance

sport, she must necessarily Cabinet are such that the King is so fallible that a man's will

look like a ca- constitutionally obliged to take the to freedom wilts at the

valry major. Cabinet's advice, and to lend it glance of a woman's eye? his moral and social support."

They torpedo the affectations They are easy to ask and

of Strong-willed man that he is, King Edward may gird against easier to answer. And tho

those penny-wita according to our convention, but kingahip has its answers,

of Chelsea and responsibilities as well as its pri- several needs and feelings, are

Bloomsbury who vileges; the greatest of these is part of the human map of

make intellectual that the Monarch's personal feel- every one's everyday life.

chatter the ex- ings must, in matters which affect For my part, I am marrying

cuse for appall. the Crown, be secondary to the again because it is worth it. A

ing make-up, 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

think, not only a tribute to our share many interests, but be- nails, slovenly" you

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 morals. 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, of "Yes" and type, I suppose every young

stand. ONCE in life if you. and lucky

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of a man who did not succeed at first

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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 and 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.

helped to encourage, that hectic, and his actions vitally affect help it.

Because she can be argued hard-boiled, hard-faced genera- the people's attachment to the Crown. The King's legal rights

with and will argue. For rea- tion of young women with WHY am I marry- to order his own life may be un- twice if you are luckfer still not merely in order to have a

ing again? It is sonable argument is the breath metallic voices, the parrot braina.

of mental development.

and the stern intention to re- 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 advice of his Ministers, grave

a woman, who al- and soul of the party just so They will go on being the life issues 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 a dull and un- inevitably agree? free-mealer has shared a taxi. I have done it once, and inspiring person who will pro- If so, you are, I suggest with home, when the hired waitera foundations of the Throne might well have the most warious con-times since. Like Mr. Choate, children. Maybe they are the garten stage...

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 and the Empire as a whole. We the pro-war American Ambas backbone of the nation, but auch

by workers are going to the City cannot, therefore, but think that sador, who, when asked at a vertebræ beget intellectual gout. woman is to inspire, sympathise, finds there is nothing to go Surely the function of then the bright young thing. It is worse to marry for to encourage, to comfort when home to except a headache. His Majesty, who is loved and dinner party what existence ho revered as probably no other would choose in the next world, money or social advantage. To necessary and, above all, to. They are great fum, but we occupant of the Throne has answered: "I can conceive no do that is to confess, one's own stand. at one's side as an don't marry that sort. been, will do the right thing at greater degree of celestial hap weakness as a man, one's in intelligent, intuitively farsight this juncture in his life. This piness than to be second hus- ability to carn, to work, and to ed companion whose judgment will be the prayer of his aub- band of Mrs. Choate," I never fight.

Fon my part, after is worth listening to, whose

20 years of all sorts jects everywhere; if it is an- regretted that first marriage. I'm marrying again, not only views are worth seeking, whoso and sides of London life. I swered in accord with his That it was dissolved was no because she is beautiful — approval is worth winning.. people's wishes, the name and one's concern but our own. The heaven defended me from an

shall marry, again because we * can work together, be cathusias- LTD. personality of our beloved fact that my ex-wife and I re- irregular profile; not only be THE facts that she tie together, be quite ridiculous...

Monarch will gain fresh lustre, main excellent and trustworthy cause she walks well, for grace

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- practica most of all because enhanced.

humour unimpaired, our mutual divine a sight as action In a munism in its workings; tha

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