Word: kilmuir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ermine-trimmed scarlet; Lords of Court of Appeal in black knee breeches and gold-braided gowns; Lord Goddard, 80 years old, Lord Chief Justice, wearing an extra S-shaped band of gold braid. Trainbearers, bearers of the standard and the mace, each entered and took an appointed place. Lord Kilmuir, the Lord High Chancellor, draped amid flowing robes, impassive under a full-bottomed wig, came last...
After the preliminary speech by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren in a morning coat, the major themes of the joint conference were laid down in major speeches by Britain's Lord Kilmuir (who, as David Maxwell Fyfe, was British Home Secretary from 1951-54) and U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
...Timeless Longing. Kilmuir spoke of the hard-fought past that had led to the "free legal and political systems which are the heritage and pride not only of our two nations but of the Western world, and of all those countries of Asia and Africa that have been nurtured in the noble and fruitful ways of the common law." He went on to evoke and delineate "a doctrine which we both share with a wider community even than that of the common law ... I refer to the doctrine of the law of nature...
...Then Kilmuir applied his text: "What we are seeing now in some parts of the world is, I am convinced, a spontaneous expression of that timeless longing, inseparable from the human condition, for justice, for the acceptance and fulfillment of the requirements of natural law, which recognizes that man is born to die and has but a little time to fulfill himself and to care for those to whom he is bound by ties of kinship and love...
...theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about in speedboats. But he was always restless there. "I'm not really...