Word: shawcross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court for such behavior, he rushed a special law through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother of Laborite ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, flew in to defend Reporter Colvin, the Interior Minister declared him persona non grata for "attacking the Ghana government in court" and refused to let him back into the country to finish his case...
...flunkeys dealt out some 2,000 plastic raincoats he had bought ("The goddamn rain flowed like champagne," the great man growled), while Aly Khan and his great and good friend, French Model Bettina, cavorted on the carousel, U.S. Ambassador Jock Whitney sloshed into a mud puddle, and Sir Hartley Shawcross, onetime British attorney general, navigated a rumba. Mike missed no chance to brandish the pregnancy of his third wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor. Item: at the première, piqued when distinguished guests were tardy, Todd rushed his wife to a chair, crying for all to hear: "What would...
...Italy, they have little money, bicker constantly over the shadows of power left to their government in exile, but instantly unite when it is a question of combating the Communist Warsaw government. Pennies, shillings and pounds poured in, enough to hire Britain's top Laborite lawyer, Sir Hartley Shawcross...
...London's musty Bow Street court, crowded with Polish exiles, Shawcross in effect put the Polish government itself on trial. Said he: "These men are charged with what amounts to mutiny ... It might have been revolt on the high seas, but it was political revolt against political tyranny on a vessel being run by a political officer with more powers than the captain." He introduced as evidence a persuader found in the political officer's cabin-a spring-handled bludgeon. "It seems a curious form of political argument," said Shawcross dryly...
...question of subversives, and that the issue is not in any way a political one. At bottom, chastened by tastes of totalitarianism that go back to the Star chamber and beyond, British feeling holds that in some real way these investigations are inimical to a free society. "In Britain," Shawcross said, "rightly or wrongly all parties have so far taken the view that the use of repressive measures against ideas which we dislike and are convinced are wrong would make the danger to our way of life the greater." MICHAEL O. FINKELSTEIN