Word: shawcross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Sir Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nürnberg war crimes trials, and new President of the British Board of Trade, delivered a judgment on feminine fashions: "No woman in Britain should have so many clothes that she can ask her husband, 'What shall I wear tonight?' " Furthermore, he added, "the only clothes suitable for the wife of any member of the Government obviously are sackcloth and ashes nowadays...
...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, succeeding Harold Wilson; 49; handsome, suave lawyer; Dulwich College (in London), London School of Economics, University of Geneva; started electioneering for the Labor Party at 16; called to the bar in 1925; senior law lecturer, Liverpool University, 1927-34; served on government commissions (coal-mining inquiry, air-raid defense, etc.); chief British prosecutor at the Nurnberg trials; elected to Parliament, 1945; Attorney General...
...Frank Soskice, Attorney General, succeeding Shawcross; 48; soft-voiced, able lawyer; Balliol College, Oxford; called to the bar, 1926; specialized in commercial law; with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (East Africa and Middle East) in World War II, ended his service as major in intelligence; elected to Parliament, 1945; helped prepare indictments for Nurnberg trials; Solicitor General (second law officer to the Crown), 1945-51; a close personal friend of Attlee...
...Shawcross concluded with a reminder that Fuchs would have got a different kind of trial had he been accused of treason by the power he served. "It should perhaps be said that this man's confession was made while he was still a free man," said the Prosecutor, "able to come & go as he chose and consult with friends and . . . lawyers...
...what stirred Lord Goddard (and all of Britain) most was the defense counsel's calm statement that Fuchs had been a "known Communist," that his record in the Home Office said clearly that Fuchs had. been a member of the Communist Party in Germany. Prosecutor Shawcross lamely admitted that this was true. But the fact, while it represented scandalous negligence on the part of British security services, did not alter the case or the course of justice...