Word: kilmuir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.B.A.'s presidency at the 80th anniversary convention in London. On Runnymede's historic meadow, Rhyne dedicated the A.B.A.'s monument in commemoration of the sealing of Magna Carta. In Westminster Hall, Chief Justice Earl Warren and then Attorney General Herbert Brownell of the U.S., Lord Kilmuir, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and the lawyers of two continents joined in a session that was, in itself, one of the great landmarks in the history of law (TIME...
...decisive words came from the government's official spokesman, dour, waxen-faced Lord Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor. "The government do not think that the general sense of the community is with the committee in its recommendation, and therefore they think the problem requires further study." In other words, unless public opinion changed, the government was going to keep homosexuality on the criminal list...
...conferred sovereignty on the new nation, in the name of his niece, the Queen. Backing the duke was a distinguished group of Britons, including Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who as High Commissioner to Malaya turned the tide against the Communist rebellion in Malaya in 1952-54, and Viscount Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain...
...King himself should be under no man, but under God and the law. Now, in July 1957, the U.S. was issuing another call to greatness. The U.S. was proposing that nations should submit themselves to nothing less than a system of world law based upon the concepts that Lord Kilmuir had so cogently defined...
...laws are not static, any more than society or human nature is static," said Britain's Lord Kilmuir as he set forth the proposition that underlay the panorama. "The roots, well grounded in history and watered by wisdom, are constantly putting out fresh branches and leaves for the comfort of mankind...