Word: shawcross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have somewhat soured Britain's taste for the televised fol-de-rol of subversive hunting, for her recently completed Civil Service investigation seems, in retrospect, to have lacked the drama of its American counterpart. The sober temper of these investigations was reflected in an unemotional speech by Sir Hartley Shawcross, the Attorney General of the Labor Party between 1945 and 1951, at Columbia's Bicentennial celebration. The long speech, almost entirely ignored by the American press, summed up the methods and results of Britain's policy towards subversives since World...
...Shawcross emphasizes in his speech that he does not wish to draw parallels with the United States, whose "racial heterogeneity" and geographical situation make the problem of security considerably more complex. Britain has the undoubted security advantage of a closely knit country But besides this, certain safeguards of a customary nature have acted strongly to prevent the development of an inquisitorial type of investigation. There is, for example, the tradition that Parliamentary committees are appointed for only special, necessarily grave investigations. Shawcross believes that the British public would not tolerate an investigating committee with wide powers. Further, there...
...planes. Red guards were admitted to the British airfield where the planes were parked: they shooed away all visitors. Finally Chennault took his appeal to Britain's court of last resort, the Lords of Appeal of the high & mighty Privy Council in London. Bewigged Sir Hartley Shawcross, Q.C., Laborite attorney general and now a top-priced barrister, pleaded Chennault's case...
...France. Last week the Grand Old Man of European Labor was awarded the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize ($32,400). In selecting its man of 1951, Norway's Nobel committee passed over Norway's own Trygve Lie, India's Pandit Nehru and Britain's Sir Hartley Shawcross. It was a surprise choice, and not a universally applauded one. Said Jouhaux: "It is not Leon Jouhaux who is being honored; it is the working class, which has always striven for peace...
Cancer in the Body Politic. Sir Hartley Shawcross, then the Laborite Attorney General, eloquently voiced the uncompromising British attitude toward corruption in public office: "Our whole system of government rests upon public confidence in the honor and integrity of those whether as ministers or civil servants who are the officers of the crown . . . It was recognized from the first that the interests of the [Labor] government and of the country coincided in this: that this alleged cancer in the body politic should not be covered up but should be fully exposed, explored, and probed so that . . . it could be completely...