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Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas got a painful lesson in the British laws of libel, learned that reflections upon the character and ability of a British official can be dangerous. The defamed Briton: Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Britain's onetime (1941-46) governor of Burma, whom Douglas accused of general bungling in office in his travelogue North from Malaya. In a court-approved settlement, Lawyer Douglas and his British publisher last week offered "sincere apologies and regrets...
...small Briton, two-year-old Abraham McKillop of Dumbartonshire, had a miraculous escape when he was found covered with snow after 16 hours in a frozen ditch, and thawed out unharmed. But not everybody was so fortunate. All in all, the cold weather claimed at least 140 lives...
...could not long continue. In a nation which sets such store by seemliness, the situation was too unseemly to last. What had begun as a simple and sentimental story of a Princess in love had now become a crisis that deeply involved institutions close to the heart of every Briton: the Crown and the Established Church...
...itself felt: the views of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of such powerful leaders of Conservative thought as the Marquess of Salisbury, and of the cautious, conservative and pious segment of nonconformist believers throughout the land. In the wake of this slow gathering of substantial opinion, many a lighter-hearted Briton was forced to forget the sentiment and take stock of the significance of Margaret's apparently firm intention to marry outside her church and outside the stern limitations of her inheritance...
Normality in Ermine. In this no longer gay romance, there were no villains, only victims. What modern Britons have come to demand and need most of all from their royal family is example. As the London Times put it last week: "The Queen has come to be the symbol ... in whom the people see their better selves ideally refleeted." But there was a corollary: in reflecting the national ideal, the monarchy must not set itself apart and away from the people it represents. The reflection must be that of normality clothed in ermine, and while the institution remains beyond reproach...