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...heroin, which was due to go into effect at year's end. British doctors-and M.P.'s of both parties-had fought the ban vehemently, insisting that heroin is needed for medical purposes, chiefly as a pain killer. The government acted after 70-year-old Laborite Lord Jowitt,† onetime (1945-51) Lord High Chancellor, raised a fine point in the House of Lords: although the government had the legal power to control the manufacture of heroin, did it have the right to ban it? The Eden government succumbed, revoked its ban pending further study...
...Said the editor of Burke's Peerage: "It really shakes me. A most unfortunate innovation-something -which may result in peers becoming confused wuh American band leaders like Duke Ellington an Count Basic." Nevertheless, there have been previous one-name earldoms: Earl Jowitt, Earl Haig. Attlee's son and heir will be Viscount Prestwood of Walthamstow (Attlee's constituency since...
...nations can now welcome the Japanese to their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding was Italian Luigi Barzini Jr.'s Americans Are Alone in the World. The most gratuitous book from abroad was, by all odds, Briton Earl Jowitt's The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, which niggled at American jurisprudence and raised among readers questions as to the earl's competence to judge the nature of Communist conspiracy...
Here, concludes Brogan, "is the basic reason why the book is bad, why [Jowitt] is continually being amazed or shocked at things that, however deplorable, are not, in this age, in the least shocking, and about which, in the age of Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs, the Canadian spy ring and the rest, there is no point in being shocked...
Onetime Lords Chancellor are forbidden to return to the practice of law. Lord Jowitt, with time on his hands, turned to the study of the Hiss case. With the affinity of many non-Communist leftists for the Hiss defense, and with the British tendency to consider the U.S. "hysterical" about Communists, it surprised no one that Jowitt found for Alger Hiss. It may be a shock to some readers, however, that a onetime Lord Chancellor does "not pretend to know" about Communist morality and that he cannot get facts as an ordinary American jury got them...