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Unruffled as always, British justice, is the person of periwigged Sir Reginald Powell Croom-Johnson, peered over the rims of its half-moon spectacles and remarked with acerbity: "This is a very ordinary case." But to the ruddy-cheeked Sussex countrymen who jammed a Lewes courtroorn last week, the air seemed charged with mysterious mesmeric forces. There was, for example, the plea of plaintiff's counsel that the defendant "should not sit anywhere in sight" of his client. "You are asking," inquired Justice Croom-Johnson, "that he should not hypnotize her?" Barrister John Flowers, Queen's Counsel, replied...
...ever having had such a complaint before. Then, as his own lawyer, he asked Dr. Van Pelt: Is it not true that an anxiety neurosis such as Diana's could have come from an unhappy love affair? It could be, began Van Pelt, but at that point Justice Croom-Johnson chose to interrupt. "A typical example of anxiety neurosis," he remarked, "is the anxiety of the plaintiff in this case, who wants to recover damages." The courtroom rocked in laughter. "Do not use Americanisms in this court," the judge warned Slater as the vaudevillian warmed to a climax...
...Britain's second step is a clear recognition that West Africa nationalism is here to stay. To the Gold Coast's cheering, native parliament went word that the White Queen across the seas had appointed history's first African Prime Minister: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced nah-croom-ah). A year ago, when Britain gave the Gold Coast its first constitution, troublemaking Socialist Lawyer Nkrumah, a dedicated anticolonialist, became "Leader of Government Business," with responsibilities for health, education and commerce. Old colonial hands forecast bloody revolution, but Nkrumah, in office, cooperated with Britain to make the constitution work...
...CROOM BEATTY...
Best (though not the best written) biography of Macaulay since George Otto Trevelyan's (Macaulay's nephew), published in 1876, is Lord Macaulay (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), by Richmond Croom Beatty, a 40-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University. Outstanding is its fairness, its reconstruction of Macaulay's times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress...