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...steady drizzle that turned to fog, about 40,000 Liverpool suburbanites voted last week in the West Derby by-election. "A significant straw," the politicos called it, for West Derby symbolizes Britain's even political balance: able Sir David Maxwell Fyfe held onto the seat for the Conservatives so narrowly in the 1951 general election that the Socialists needed only a 1.7% swing to win this year...
...Elder's View. Last week Home Secretary Maxwell Fyfe was in deep consultation with medical and legal experts on the subject. In the House of Lords, old (83) Liberal Leader Lord Samuel expressed a view that was perhaps closest to that held by most Britons...
...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...