Word: fyfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Papen was arrested and tried at Nürnberg on charges of having conspired to wage war. He was acquitted, but the British prosecutor, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, told him: "You had seen your own friends, your own servants, murdered around you . . . The only reason which could have . . . made you take one job after another from the Nazis was that you sympathized with their work...
...wished? Or should he hand over his favor to his faithful friend and (nephew-in-law) Anthony Eden, while he was still able to decide the succession? Eden's own health, and the ascending political popularity of two other Tory cabinet members, Rab Butler and Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, made the issue important...
...Derek Bentley, a hapless lad of 19 who has been described as "three-quarter-witted," Lord Chief Justice Goddard grimly donned the black cap to pronounce the death sentence. Since the jury had recommended mercy, many Britons expected Britain's Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, to commute Bentley's sentence...
...David Maxwell Fyfe, you don't like our radio and TV system? May I remind you that it is a free enterprise? It is NOT a government subsidy ! . . . Drink all the tea you wish, but don't expect me to do the same...
Tory Benches. The Tory raid was led by Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. To the charge that sponsored TV would eventually reduce British programs to the low level of those in the U.S., Fyfe replied, patriotically: "I am not impressed by analogies from the United States. We have our typical British way of resolving problems of taste . . . We are a much more mature and sophisticated people." Labor's Herbert Morrison interrupted to taunt: "That sounds like anti-Americanism." With feigned astonishment, Fyfe replied: "I am very surprised that the right honorable gentleman should take me to task...