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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...
...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...