"Wigs and Transformations for Ladies and Gentlemen may now be
obtained Free under the National Health Scheme." So an adver- tisement in the Western Mail (inserted by someone who wants to sell these object & and get reimbursed by Mr. Bevan ; and since the Western Mail circulates in Mr. Bevan's native territory, it is no doubt sure of its ground). This, as it happens, is a subject on which I am a little sensitive, for reasons which need not be enlarged on ; but I submit firmly that, whatever may be right in the case of ladies, wigs and transformations ought not to be supplied to men under the National Health Scheme unless a doctor certifies in a given case,that they are ess,ntial to health. In normal circumstances, I have the best of reasons of knowing (reasons, again which need not be enlarged on) that they are not. It so happens that the next advertisement in the same column of the Western Mail comes from a firm which undertakes to make doors and windows per- manently draught-proof. That makes much better sense. Take advantage of that, and leave deceitful and deceptive disguises alone-
even if Mr. Bevan does offer them free (which means, of course, that the taxpayer presents them).
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