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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1960,
Crime Against The State
ARTEMENANJAKANADELANTEROLA KIBANJOUR JUNIO LUMAPITALETESEBIENES REGLAS MULA P£#ENG
BY EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Condemned by a letter-
MILLIONS who are
quite unmoved by greater names in his; tory, nevertheless re- spond with curiosity and interest to any casual mention of Mary Queen of Scots.
For hers is that peren- nial and boundless fas- cination attaching to a tragic blend of opposite
extremes.
On the one hand, no woman has ever lived a, 1fe more royal.
but who wrote it?
end cultured and attractive woman henceforth was to spend virtually all her lite, untit Its termination In + crust and bloody death,
Not, however, at the fist of the Scottish lords. Inside a year, she had escaped from Lochleven, and sought refuge, not in the
Scottish
France nor Spain, but with her
ghlands nor in
another us the requirements of unflinching, at the Commission's security might suggest.
спусул.
Nor did general opinion con- older this treatment harsh; on the contrary, there were constant demands for rierner mezst::C9— demonds that reached an extra strident ulich each time a plot against Elizabeth was exposed.
"Il sremeth strenge to mo,” the sald, "that I should be com- manded to appear in judgment. tam an absolute Queen."
The envoys, taken aback, claimed for their Commission an authority by patent.
participate in any ran popil she repeated scornfully.
Even If Mary did not setively
"Да authority by patent!"
"But
close khwcman. Elizabeth of ar argument she WIS the I am not a rubicet, and would England.
primary inspiration of mast, and rather de a thousand deaths the prospective bencfelury of than acknowledue myself one, all.
She became through the death Deadly rivals
of her father, James V sovereign of Settland when she was one week old. --throsigh the death of her cousin. "Mary Tudor her to The English monarchy when she was 18.
At 17-through the accession of her spouse, the Dauphin-she doubled her regality by becom- iny Queen of France.
has
On the other hand, no woman
ever lived
afe more wretched. She spent ROING childhood years 071 0 ranoic
It was not only loitti of any erced ledged Mary's title to v.rgin quam aliady
und lonely island as a safeguard thing middle age.
queen.
weighed with her may be mea- resolutely
by
XM
Mary Queen of Scots: No woman ever lived a life mere royal
tori
treason before,
or more wretched,
The envoya respectfully urged What long restrained Eliza her to reconalder, for the Com-
do the str himself History, rather than personal bell from complying with this mission both could and would and signed by Anthony Babing "By what means
beheaded
DFO- for gentlemen deliberale to her absence. She become antipathy, had decreed that these demands was neither scruple ner proceed despite
joss than ព
month cred?" bootiers provilege," should be deadly shrewd two women
compassion. It was simply a "Lay aside
When those words were read, Tivols.
and se:sli fear of they pleaded, "and show your Its
lest.
language did not offer the Queen burst into tears-- I was not only that they boomerang effects if she violated innocence.
avolding symbolised the Protestant and
the divinity of cn anointed trial, you draw upon yourself scope for misinterpretation; it whether from conscious guilt or Roman Catholle camps,
to referred "invaslung,” and outraged innocencv we shall suspicions. mutual haired at that time split whose
"the deliverance of your never know. The extent to which this **I WEI not offend," Great Britain.
she majesty, and-anost sinister of I would not so make shii- persisted against all-ta
"the dispatch of the wreck of my soul," she cried. sured by the fact that when at my the genea last she
progenitors, the Kings ef
There be str noble usurper.
"Your
have secretaries dld decide to strike. Scots, by acknowledging myself gentlemen," it added, "who, for vouched ft" the prosecutor said. acknow-
Mary had been under her "pro- a subject to succeed a
the Crown of the zeal they bear the Catholie "Then they are men for tection 18 years.
England."
cause and your majesty's
Mary declared. "Might ser- sworn,' approa-
The good looks which ad
finve inserted in my graced her carlæer, had gone,
vice, will undertake the tragical they not execution." It was not only that the Engage and frustration and stale air
letters things I had not dictated? The safety of all princes falleth lsh Pepists had always queried had taken toli; al forty-four the
Mary Armly denied any know- to the ground if they depend A 18 she was prematurely Elizabeth's own tide.
None legendary Queen of Scots was
the less, the pondered ledge c' that letter: widowed. and constrained
There still remained
of accro- To
upon the testimony round-shouldered fat, and dis- that argument overnight, and
"It is confessed by Babing- taries. from Paris berminating factor. Shortly after tinetly double-chinned.
to
next day, when the full Com- ten" the prosecutor said. appeal
It was # shrewd thrust, but northern realm, where she felt a Mory'a
ком succour, It hardly mattered. Enhanced mission of 24 assembled the strangeras she was felt to be. Ezabeth was formally excum- by her maturing
"It may be Bablogion wrote by on unpractised defender......... years her Queen of Scots reluctantly op- tt" she retorted, "but let it be but this time the counter-thrust At 24 she witnessed with unicuted; the Pepe horror-stricken eyes the brutal nounced that she was not the as presence exercised a apeit
pro innate dignity-of spirit as well peared to stand her tria).
A strange trial, in which the men's crimes are not to be cast
proved that I received H. Other accomplished infamy. murder of her most devoted lawful Queen of England against which mere good looks accused allowed no Ride upon the instigation of her thereby obviously implying that could not compete. jealous second husband, At 23 Mary was. she learned-with less distrees, my eylethal the latter had been violently done to death in turn,
ogeinst
kidnapping
hostile English.
Colum
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the
cul-
Mary thus constituted a focus of, and a spur fo, disaffection, and it would have taken a more quixotic character than Eliza her unexpected trustfulness. beth to refrain from exploiting
Alic
received
That dignity was conspicuously mantfest from the first moment of her ultimate ordeal from the moment
formal intimation that Commissioners, Al 26 she herself was over
specially appointed for the task, thrown by 0 conspiracy of
were foregathering at her eur- rebellious Scottish lords, and Mary had asked for Elizabeth's rent gaol, Castle Fotheringay, to immured in the dour fastness of protection: she received it—as a try her for conspiracy against Lochleven Castle Orsi in the mildly privileged but closely Elizabeth's life.
from series of real or quast-prison guarded captive, shifted
Having briefly declared herself within whose walls this young one house Di detention to clear of any crime, she gazed,
Strange trial
on
ad-
on me."
Ber f
I was a shrewd thrust, but Instantly met by counter-tirust.
"Listen now to this," prosecutor sald.
The copy
second
Her guilt
the
vocate, no notes no documents, in which the judges were handpicked adversaries:
Adjourning their session from which the ordinary courts were
the Fatheringay to London the
Commissioners called by-passed and ignored,
A strange trial. in which the
letter if the Quren's secretaries before them. evidence rested
merited reliance - had She was not present, nor even alleged toen addressed by the Queen of represented; there was no cross- copies of letters, whose authen- Scots to Babington and ticity—even Such was
was eximination-there was no cross- not patently in onewer to the first. examiner. And yet, upon hear ottesled.
It also referred to invasiona; it ing this untested evidence-the One of these letters if the also
canvassed
the methods of only evidence that skirted copy merited reliance had been escape; and-most sinister of all fringe of legal proof-the Com- addressed to the Queen of Scots the writer anxiously Inquired, missioners felt able to pronounce Mary's guilt and to presage its |expiration on the headsman's block.
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Sir Gladwyn: A job
A
May.
Paris.
PEERAGE may well await Sir Gladwyn Jebb when he retires from the Foreign Office and his post as British Ambassador in Paris next
And to go with it, an interesting political future could be his.
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It is possible, for example, that he might sli from time
to time as п Government spokesman on foreign affairs
in the House of Lords.
the
in Lords?
While Paris Newslette
This nows Will comǝ as ing Head of the Foreign Office. been an interesting study in something of 丸 blow to the With the exciting prespects frustration. British Labour Parly whose that lie shead of him, Sir He was kept completely in the lenders have always regarded Gladwyn seems to have lost all dark regarding the Suez opera- Str Gladwyn as one of their but a 'nominal interest in his on and this, of course, Inqvit-
present post.
ably weakened his position in
men.
He gambled impulsively
on
Indeed, if the Labour Party He was, for example, absent Paris. had won the last election some on Д West African tour such high post would have been throughout last January's des- Mendes-France as France's man offered him by # Labour perate Algerian crisis, and dis of destiny and did not disguise Government.
missed
with impatience any his marked liking for this suggestion that he should return widely-disliked politician. As a to Paris.
result, his influence dwindled
His ambition
I am inclined to agree with to a coterie of Left-wing po- him that his return would have liticians. served Iiile purpose.
In a sense, the eminence that
Then there was the famous Sir Gladwyn will enjoy after The fact is that despite his Jebb manner. Some like myself his retirement adds yet another careful cultivation of de Gaulle like it: others do not. footnote to the rise and fall of during the General's years in
ir Anthony Eden..
political exile, the present ro It is a compound of shyness, The two men disilke each gime views him with suspicion and marked vanity; of intelleo. other, and it is safe to say that amounting lo downright hos tual петокалое which often comparative obscurity would tillty.
borders on condescension; and
have been Sir Gladwyn's lot Altogether, Sir Gladwyn's a well sharpened wit which afier retirement If Sir Anthony history as Ambassador here has often buria, had remained Premier,
It was Eden who successfully prevented Jebb from fuiflling his highest ambition by becom
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