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“A CRUCIAL TRUTH

Henry Wallace and those who think like him, on both sides of the Atlantic, keep urging that we should try to sweep away the

and minunderstandinge picions which exist between the Western world and the Sovier Union. This line of talk has pro- bably done more to confuse the real issue than anything else.

BUA

THE CHINA-MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY-24,-1947.--

A Woman Who Has Made. British Legal History

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work best suited-to, Anciran appeal sa priynte,prac- Mary Hollowell la Eugland's, that the first woman deputy coroner. their particular talenta fes in-tica for women solicitors, there in tlio Throughout the area of East side the office. Boforo World are indications that Suffolk, bordering on the North War 11 it was

to see future thin, type of work may Local Sen, any case of sudden death woffien solicitors in the hurty offer increasing scope.

accident, suicide, misadven-burly of the courts; the quieter councils are beginning to de- ture, murder,, natural death-atmosphere of legal chambers part from the tradition of n- means work for het: Over the offered a more congenial back. ways appunting a man to

which, by law must ground. inquente

where they could legal post, and there are..al

ready two women Deputy follow auch deaths, Miss Hollo specialise in such detailed work Town Clerks in the country. well presides. She questions the as conveyancing or drawing Thirty-six-year-old Betty witnessen, ROMA Up for the pleadings.

Entwistle, with Town Clerkship During World War II, how-in her blook, as her father was jury; one of her least pleasant| duties is to view the body of ever, many of their, men salono too, was appointed to St. leagues went into the Services, Albans, near London, in 1944, the deceased citizen....

"Miss Hollowell travels up to and it was necessary for more the first woman to hold, such lawyers to branch out a post. Edna Cann followed her 40 miles to attend an inquest, women

cxample this year, becoming and she is paid a fee of threa

Deputy Town, Clerk of Wal- guineas, plus her travelling ex

thamstow, another borough penses.

near London.

The frut woman Deputy Cornner is, by profession, al There is no difficulty in un-solicitor, and at the age of 23. derstanding Russia if you want within a short time of qualify

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BRIGID MAXWELL

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Criminal Law

In Yorkshire, Cecile Marle Hishop, aged 28, in Clerk to the 10. And we may be quite certaining. was appointed Deputy into court work. It may well Justices of Settle, and recently that the thirteen members of the Clerk to the Justices of Need-be that this enforced experience gave brilliant and analytical Politburo in Aluscow understand ham Market. Seven years later. will enuse women solicitors to exponition of crimaluni "Inv

They are among the ablest in

for two-and- 1943, she became at once engage more frequently in tri-wilch lasted realists in the world. And though clerk to the Itowmarket Bench minni practice or in police court a-half hours: She became a

the first woman they may sometimes niiscalculate., and

mag-advocacy.

solicitur's clerk at the age of they are not the sort of people istrates' clerk Ju

han- English In the legal profession. mar. 16, and qualified with who go looking for burglars un-legal history. ↑ș.

riage is a recommendation, not ours when she was just 21- der their beds.

Three Hundred Women a disadvantage, as it is in some the earliest age at which it is If Mr. Wallace cannot under-

'Solicitors

other kinds of work. Clients porrible to do so.

Also holding A public ap stand the Russians, it is entirely Mary Hollowell is one of 300 often prefer to discuss "their

difficulties with married pointment, though of n differ- his fault. There is no more excuse; women who have become

is Eulatio weinan. In divorce practice, ent type." for misunderstanding the objec- solicitors since 1922, the year

so, and Spleer, Senior Solicitor tives of the Russians than there that the Arst woman,

Carrio particularly, this is was for misunderstanding Hitler Morrison, was admitted to the women clients usually find it charge of the Services Divorce and his objectives. Hitler, in his Rok of the Supreme Court. Un-easier to talk of the intimate Department. of Britain's bak "Mein Kampf," explained til 1919 women could not, by problems of married life with Society, the holy responsible barristers a sympathetic woman than with for the conduct and manage- ment of the solicitor's profess in great detail the plan by which law, become either

slun. Professional And

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By Dick Turner

3006 KYNKA KERVICE SIKA, K. M. BEG "If a map answers, put out the Bre!"

Man About Town In Hollywood

Blake" is a smash hit in New antlees York, despite mixed from the crities.

Club-Cum-Hotel

and timely warning of what he ing of the Sex (Dlaqualifica-| home and a family. Mrs. W get through the ordinary mim- ataying with her old - friend," | hotel in Palm Springs which

"That fear was

unfounded.

for woman-an expert on

Fannie Brice, always has is owned and operated by one. chiol vallse-full of yartis and time flm star Charles. Farrell

By REGINALD GARDINER

-and-his-wife Kirginia Villie was jammed with vialtors, and in Use crowd run into Greer Garson And Dick Haymes, and in the distance, I glimpsed our friend Gabriel Pascali ind thereby hangs a Jale.

It seem that Mr. Pascal, -- with that rather stern mien oĽA his, ceremoniously entered the bar, one evening with lawyer and secretary

funny bits of gossip, which, when given forth as only she hold can give them forth, everyone, within earshot in Inther, of delight.

he would conquer the world, yet or solicitors (in England the

Every-one in the film colony functiona

kept

Miss Splcer's post is 'a signi there were people who refused to two

is feeling that the Californian and those called to Domestic Duties of these post-war times. Owing kies have had an extra lustre -believe, that he meant, business. separate.

Many Auccessful. women to war-time difficulties, the Looking back, one must admit the Bar devote their legal work

to advocacy in the solicitors combine their pro- English cour's have during the added in them since Bea Lille

The Hacquet Club, the mont That il was rather sporting of entirely

The amazing Bea, who is popular elab-cum-bungalow Hitles to give the world such full courts.) In that year the pass fessional duties with running a past six years been unhe touriyed in town

tion Removal) Aet permitted helmina Soman, for instance, ber of divorce suits each ear. intended to do. Of course, being them to practise in either pre- has a charming house in Hamp These circumstances combined a bilbab judge of human fession. Of the 300 solicitors ford, London, and busy to produce an accumulation of ture, he calculated correctly. The enrolled, some 200 still remain practice in the City of London. Ces considerably greater than Germans took the book seriously in active practice.

Awarded the honour of Memony which has faced the courts and it inflamed them to the neces The 200 Women solicitors her of the British Empire in before. At the request of Bri- stry sacrifices and unity to make maintain a record of success 1936 for her work on the Gay-tain's Lord Chaneglion, the Law admirable ernment Committee concerned Society set up, early this year, a supreme effort for world do which is the more.

department "to" deni?. mination Hut the rest of the when

one remembers that at with the entertainment of off-a-spocial

cases. The ciul visitors to Britain, she is with: an Service world, which wanted to have a first there was a certain amounale a Freewoman of the City gai world paid a fine tribute good time, took no notice, and of public prejudice against was very angry with the few pea- them, and a feeling that thes of London and—unusual hobby to its women members-by plac- Inst one of them in charge et ple who were so tiresome as to would be unable to handle legal cricket.

this department, whose work try to bring the book to their at- matters with the clarity, cont- Mrs. Large, another of Bri- affects intimately the lives of tention. Just like Mr. Wallace, petence and objectivity of men.tain's women solicitors, decided thousands of citizens.

Miss Spicer, gn evergetic to enter. her husband's profes today, they talked of "sweeping Many women solicitors have sin because raising her family woman of 41. is responsible away suspicions" and "clearing

becume the sola partner of 10 children was a pretty not only for the 18 Londen.

Like A Sister up inisunderstandings.”

Another house guest of Fan. This time the documentation is sy city firms. One London expensive proposition. She was units of the Department (each

of one or two ale's is Dot

! unit consists business has thrée partners, articled as a clerk to her hus

Dickson, complete. A whole all of them women. On the band for five years, the normal solicitore, & managing clerk and are ever with Bea. library of books, starting a hun whole, women, lawyers favour period for articles of clerkship typing staff) which deal with We were all together dred years ago with Marx and private practico rather

than in England. While she studied Service divorces in the metrought for dinner at the Engels, gives us the exact blue-legal work for local or central for her law examinations she pulis, but also with the Adrians'. Any, woman who print by which the Communists authorities, possibly because had also to cope with the units working ia provincial knows anything about fashion knows the famous Hollywood have platined to conquer the world the majority of those who have family, so the laws of personal cities on the divorce cases com- by a carefully organised

far entered the profession property and the in-and-outs in before the courts of Assize.firess designer.

and torts were I was 346. years ago. in

He is married to Janet Gay. spiracy of war and revolution.are daughters of solicitors er of: contracts

darning 1600, that Shukespeare created nor, who, by the way, really But most people prefer to dis- managing clerks. They tend to squeezed In between regard these books-even those follow directly in father's foot the socks, bathing the baby and one of the most famous low- ahould come bank to the screen-

yete of all time-a. woman. She looks marvellous' and still (3 Too Beautiful? written by Lenin and Stalin, steps, and to enter the family making the Christmas cakes.

when she

Portla Was

centuries Now, thred

hur myriads of fans. She qualified

I learned that Deborah Kerr which in even greater detail illus; business,

over 40, and two years after- later, the fantasy is a reality

And what about Dot Dick will almost certainly do "Queen wards her husband died. Mra. the women of Shakespeare's son? Well, she did a pretty Besa" for M.-G.-M. after sho Large carried on the business country expound the law," per- blush and smiled a "Thank finishes "The Huckstera" with

you kindly, air, when I told Clark Gable,

and on her own, later taking her haps less dramatically, but with

as much success, as the Dunich her that I might have some son into partnership,

picture, "The Day Before Yes- Although local Government who came to judgment in "The difficulty in not calling her

terday," with him. legal work hitherto has not had Merchant of Venice."

Dorothy Hyson.

Bens" is a story **Queen dealing with the younger days of the Virgin Queen.

Red-headed Deborah should

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frate not púly the strategy but So far, too, they have found

the exact tactics by which the

whole world is to be reduced to a

vast ant heap on the Russian mudel.

The questions which seem to trouble.Mr. Wallace and his friends are these: Why is it that

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tween Russia and the Western powers in making peace treaties

·Tahoran, Feb. 22 in Europe? Why is it that the Iranian troops today occupied United Nations. should be frus- Oshnod, Upper Kurdistan, the trated in their work? Why can Kurds of the Barzani tribes whe main centre of 'averal thousand- we not have One World? The took refuge in Iran after rebellion answer, of course, is very simple, against Iraq Government a year and anyone can see it if he wants | 989,

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities”.

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Ile came to a half, took in ahls Hurroundings with

scrutinising dignity, and then, summoning a waiter, said in a very audible voice: "Get Dublin on the 'phone."

The waiter went away returneri, informing the great producer, that no one of that naire was registered at the club.

exclaimed "No, no!" Paseal, Dublin, Ireland!"

How grand can They say the waiter is still standing there.,

She looks far more like Mias Hyson's sister than her mother "Amber" Palling

Mr.

'you get?

another

The visit hero of Ivor be grand in, the part, except Novello and Robart Andrews that he may be rather too has been considerably, marred good looking for the character, by the sudden inces of Lloyd who was rather on the plain Williams, Vor's, friend and ulde, if my memory and his- accretary for some 30 years. tory lessons serve me right.

Com- The other night the mand Performance movie "A Death," matter of Life and

in- renamed here, for some scrutable reason, "Stairway to Heaven," had its Hollywood". premiere at the Four-Star Theatre on Wilshire Boulevard. All the notices were wonder- ful, both for the picture and also for stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Raymond Massey and the whole

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Goroge Sanders came round West (pened the J of his part- ner's spades. When East won with and had a cup of tea with me tie K, he decided to limit rulls

A day or so ago. He tells ma to. The Russians do not want the The city..14 miles from the Trag

by, lending a trump. South took

that, contrary to his original .border, was occupied without same sort of world that we want.fighting. Barzani tribesmen shout

If you

are going to duck a that in dummy with the A and expectations, he is finding play

ing Charles II in "Forever It would be very easy to have 15.000, strong and heavily armed. trick in some suit, in order to then made the mistake of prompt-

Amber" very interesting, agreement between the Russians surrendered to the Iranian Go set it up, and later bring it in forly running three more trumps. careful Now doing his thinking too inte,

I must admit this. "Ambor" and the Western world on one of ernment, after the Central Govern-discards, you must be two conditions. Harmony would ment's occupation of the North about leaving yourself vulnerable he saw that he must duck a club,

Iranian province of Azerbaijan, in some other suit. Frequently scoring the A first, then giving business in beginning to poll a he complete either if the Russians adjoining. Kurdistan, last Decem- the duck should be used before up one to East. He hoped a spode bit, as far na 1 am concerned, you get rid of the dummy's last would not be returned, but it but I shall be intrigued to see would abandon their concepts of ber.

the defenso, getting two, what George does with the totalitarian Communism or if the They were later reported here trump. You thereby retain that was,

Richard Greend seems to be cust Western world would abandon it to be "blackmailing the locsi trump In dummy as a cup to po more tricks in the sult and set Merry Monarch.

Neues where South slipped. In which the dummy has become

happy with his role of "Alnis- concept of political freedom. But people to food them and work for lice the return of some other sult ting him,

Jack Henny, acting as Master the them. since neither Russia. nor the Wes

blank, while you still have a loser Imminediately after winning

buy in the

picture, of Ceremonien ut Edgar Ber- Two weeks ago the Iranian of the sult in the closed hand.

heart A on the second trick, and fern, world. shows any sign of Government

This la Dick's first part since gon's tenth radio anniversary offered

while the 7 was still in dummy, them tho

bo should have led a club. East, his return to file. Twentieth purty, come across with the abandoning its own concepts, there choice of staying in Iran under by the the rettioment provided.

on winning it, could have taken Century-Fox contract can inevitably be no agreement. Government Jn which case tho

following: only one more spade trick, as the

He was, A you know, an. Somo 10 yearsyngo.. Boon This is the crucial truth in the must hand over their arms and

next would have been rutted. No officer in the Tank Corps in after he and wife, Mary Living- multer, what East returned after England during the war, stone, were married, Jack at- his side's third trick, South could

Tyrone Powder in down. In tended, the first dinner given in K 10 have cleared trumps, then used

Mexico ou location making his, hondur: at the Friars.Club clubs to discard his spade lover,"

"Captain from Castile, and if equivalent to London's Water don't quite know what, gopa pn. Rats Club in New York. isut Lana Turner is hopping Ho was in a shower of com- down there from time to time pliments and handshakes when to visit him,

somebody яuddenly, handed him Ty. is a hotter box-office beta telegram which rend: When than ever since his perform you get home tonight don't ance in "The Razor's Edgo.", forget to put out the garbage.

Spent a wonderful-week-end Signed, Mary."**** as a guest of Darryl and Vir „ginia Zaauck at their house in

Palm Springs.

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| world "today. Those who do not the Government would assist them understand this understand noth with money, seed and agricultural ing, Those who do understand tools or returning to Iraq with S. J 03 it are well on the road to a sens

out Mullah Mustafs, their loader, H. 10 6.84 WE and 100 other Barkanis contence D 3.9 6 6. sible outlook on world affairs..

NEW DRIVE IN GREECE

Athens, Feb. 22

The Greek Premier, · Dome- trios Maximos, today annouD- Feed the reorganisation, of army. forces and well Informed sour- con predicted that large scale mopping-up operations against the, guerrilha would begin shortly,

Maximo vald, the army now was ready to meet bandit for

to death or imprisonment by the G. 87

frag Government.

If they refused both these pro- posals, the Government said· 10 would expel them all---Reuter.

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FCR Buccessfully but in order to Army, Including a public meeting. 11-trick club contract with ughter b

which will be attended by Cabinet trumpa. The club game would end Internal disorders sooner, winisters and members of the haym/been hopeless because two he had decided to grant amnes-diplomatic corps. The Kmesting Towers hath to be taken in spades ty to all, rabais willingly surron--whiched maizessed by General and one in frumbur" "the heart

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