Word: fyfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counsel, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, read to the court a full statement from his client. In it Haigh explained in detail how he had killed Mrs. Durand-Deacon by shooting her in the head, "then fetched in a drinking glass and made an incision, I think with a penknife, in the side of her neck, and collected a glass of blood which I drank." In 1944 William McSwan had been disposed of in much the same way-"I hit him on the head," dictated Haigh. "I withdrew a quantity of blood and drank...
Haigh, said Defense Counsel Fyfe, had been tormented for years by a recurrent dream. In it, he saw "a veritable forest of crucifixes ... the crucifixes turned into trees. Then a man appeared collecting something from the dripping trees, which seemed at first to be rain or dew. But then it became blood." The dream, said Sir David, left his client "with an overpowering desire to have blood...
...Loyal Opposition had a few gasps of protest left in it before Labor's guillotine (TIME, March 17) chopped off the usual procedure of full discussion in the Mother of Parliaments. Tory Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe used the last few seconds before the deadline to tick off a scathing objection to "a sorry parody of legislative efforts." Then the chopper fell. Grey-wigged Speaker Colonel Clifton Brown cut in; there would be no further debate. The Government's 92 amendments would never even be discussed...
Colonel General Jodl and Grand Admiral Raeder, soon to make their own defenses, nodded solemn approval. Couldn't the Wehrmacht, asked Britain's cool Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, produce a general with the "courage to stand up and oppose cold-blooded murder...
...case, Hermann Göring's counsel, Otto Stahmer, rose, loaded down with notes from his client. He asked that the defense be permitted to attempt proof that Germany's violation of the Versailles Treaty constituted "retaliation" against Allied treaty transgressions. Britain's Sir David Maxwell Fyfe retorted: "For the defense to say that other people did the same thing is entirely irrelevant. ... It is no answer, even if true, that someone else committed breaches...