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...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...
...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, went down last week to seagirt Cornwall, where he often goes sailing. There, in a luncheon speech, Socialist Shawcross made a defiant announcement: Britain has no intention of tossing overboard her small but growing trade with Iron Curtain countries, regardless of what the U.S. Congress says or does...
...Shawcross minimized the chief point of U.S. criticism: while Britain embargoes such obvious war goods as aircraft engines and arms, its chief exports to Iron Curtain countries are machinery and machine tools (60% of its $197 million Iron Curtain traffic last year) and raw rubber (7,000 tons in the first five months...
...Shawcross defended the government's policy on the ground that Britain received a fifth of her total timber imports and a third of her total imports of coarse grains from Russia. Said he: "The advantages we get ... are at least as great as those which the Communist powers obtain...