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Announcement of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee's dissolution honors list included an earldom for Viscount Jowitt, the Labor government's Lord Chancellor; a Companionship of Honor for its Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison; a baronage for David Kirkwood, thistly Scottish labor leader; and a knighthood for Dr. Walter Fergusson Hannay, the surgeon who cleared up Attlee's foot eczema and his duodenal ulcer...
...guest list read something like a combination of Who's Who and Burke's Peerage. E.M. Forster was there; so was Novelist Rose Macaulay and Viscount Jowitt and the Earl of Ilchester. The man they had all come to honor, neither peer nor poet, was known to most of the guests as plain...
Lord Vansittart protested such "preposterous and unprecedented" extensions of immunity at a time when all the countries of the Communist empire treat British and U.S. representatives "like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting up a committee to consider changes in the law which made Tass libel-proof. To illustrate Tass's mendacity, Viscount Jowitt read a Tass report in Moscow's Literary Gazette of how Londoners "supplement their starvation rations ... On Sundays, armed with guns and traps, [they...
Nevertheless the House of Commons doggedly passed the monstrosity. When it reached the House of Lords, Labor's Lord Chancellor Viscount Jowitt confessed that "this compromise has not the justification of logic behind it." The Lords scornfully rejected the amendment, and the government gave up. The noose's place in British justice will be unchanged...
...This comes near to complete dictatorship by the cabinet." Responded Jowitt: "Oh, no. The cabinet had nothing to do with it. It was the Home Secretary entirely." The Lords audibly drew a sharp breath, spent it in cheers when Viscount Cecil said: "That makes it worse...