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This stark conclusion was reached by five commission members appointed by Prime Minister Macmillan to examine a rising mortality rate in the British press. During almost two years of investigation, the commission, headed by Sir Hartley Shawcross, onetime Attorney General in the postwar Labor government, heard witnesses from both labor and management -although not all of the commission's summonses were obeyed. "We are regretfully forced to conclude," said the report, in noting that the paper workers' and lithographers' unions declined to cooperate with the inquiry, "that the real reason why each of them refused was fear...
...states involved, only 39 accept the World Court's compulsory jurisdiction. Many of these 39, said British Delegate Lord Shawcross, "including the U.S., have attached reservations which make their acceptance, to say the least, less than fully effective...
...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...
...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...