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· 1950:-

Case-book of Sir Patrick Hastings, KC ...... Chapter

PRINCESS OLGA PALEY

LOSES

W

Palace,

HER

In January, 1018, did some people come to your home? Yes,

She thereupon consulted lawyers and was advised to What happened?—I had to Institute proceedings in the show them through the house, English courts, claiming that They said: "Yes, certainly, this the original seizure by the Bol house is worth taking." sheviks was illegal and that, in consequence, all the effects re mained her property,

HEN the Prin- an coming from the Paloy

ceяя Olga Paley went into the witnesa box in one of the Royal Courts of Justice in 1929, and told her story of what she had suffered in St Petersburg, the Russian Revolution, with all its attendant hor- rors, suddenly ceased to be 11 half-forgotten tale. became a living thing.

It

Her home had been torn from her, her husband had heen murdered, and she had barely escaped from Russia with her life.

I have heard many tragedies in my life, but the story told by Princess Paley shall forget.

The Princess

never

At that time, had you any servants in the Palace?Only an old door-keeper.

in

Aller these people enme,

Never.

TREASURES

And in all the property we are Tho extreme dmculty in maintained, and the beginning discussing in this case your pro- arriving at an interpretation of of a new economic policy oo- perty, taken from your home, that law, or, indeed, of obtain- curret in 1922, ending with a the Paley' Palace?—Yes,

Civil Code in January, ing a correct translation of the

1928, which to some extent recognistá language employed, wis best

subject to private property, the expressed by one of the judges certam exceptions in the case

of the Court

of Appeal, who of property already transferred. subsequently considered the

to the Stato."

That Wil:

all.

When Princess left the box it won quite clear from the faces of the onlookers that there would be no doubt about the result if the

case,

He said: "Great difficulties

That was the whole crux of

decision were left to them, and have arisen in this case in the cax, The court held that in that somewhat depressing ascertaining the exact effect of the Princess was in Russian law, atmosphere I was constrained the Soviet Law. The parties "a person who had fed outside that everything had sandst agree on a proper trans- the confines of the Republic" lation: their experts differ on within the meaning of the

meaning to the law of Russia,

of the decree, and that the consequent. legislation, while the English confiscation of her property had translation is obviously suscep beep confirmed by the Civil tible to various menninga.

Code, and, further, that, as the British Government had cognised the Russian Republie as a sovereign State, the Eng-

Mr Weisz was in an extremely difficult position. There was no doubt that the property origin were you ever allowed to live to argue ally belonged to the Princess;

your own home ngala? been perfectly legal according the Russian there was equally no doubt that It had been taken from her in

witch, in circumstances

any civilised vlew, amounted to theft. The only possible way in in your house?-Yes,

Then were the public allowed I had to which he could tiefeat her cinim to ita recovery Was it, and only it, he could establish that everything which had happened was legal according to Russian law,

Russia's laws

J

At this time any investipa- tion into the system of law es in Russia was ex- Practized tremely difficult. Indeed, it was

was the widow Duke Paul of Prince of the had She

show them round.

A few months later, was your husband taken away to prison?-Yo,

ļ

What did you do?-1 followeri him to St Petersburg, to bo near him.

Two documents

re

"Over and above that, the There were two documents on legal prinelpics involved are so which we sought to rely. One different from our own that it lish courts were bound to give

in dimcult to appreciate and effect to Russian inw. apply them,

was a decree, No. III, patsęd by a body known as the Council of Peoples' Commissars, pub- lished on March 6. 1021, in which it was stated: "All movable property of citizens

Whole crux

"In the early days

For similar reasons the court decided that, as the Russina Governmeat had confiscated the Poley Falace as a muscum, in whole contents became the pro- of the perty of the Republic.

Were you ever allowed to see fled outside the confines of the. Revolution the position, as was him?--Sometimea

the Grand of Russia, a Royal Imperial House, married without the consent of the conditions which existed in the Tsar and, in consequence, that country. her marriage was morganatle, It is perhaps an Irony of fate that she may have owed her life to the fact that she never

almost impossible to understand Took an ikon

Republle are declared to be the property of the Russian Soviet natural, was vague and uncer- Federal Socialist Republic."

tuin. The local Soviets seem to

Last hope

have been endowed with, OF Desumet, power. A formal con- The second was a decree of stitution was promulgated on I have no doubt that the court It was known

the All-Russian Central Execu- July 10, 1918, under

which was right. The law of England. While you were in St Peters- tive Committed and or the three bodies were created; (1) is inflexible, and it is not to be that people had been murdered indiscriminately and

did you hear

the Council of Peoples Commissars, The All-Russian Congress; (2) influenced by considerations of that property bury, seized wholesale in the name of Palace had been confiscated? dated March 18, 1923, which The Executive Committee; and mere sympathy, however justi-

of Peoples' flable. the Soviet Republic, anti, Yes. I went to Tearskoe Seloc. Provided that: "Works of art and (3) The Council became legally a member of the further, that some sort of laws I was not

antiques-being in museums Commissars, The Brst two had ollowed into my ure recognised to be State pro- legislative powers, the third Romanoff family.

or decrees had been passed from home. I was allowed to take perty."

mainly administrative, although time to time to justify the acts, an ikon and say farewell.

their decrees were from time to but about who passed them,

time accepted as legislation. the

Revolution

She lived with her husband in the Paley Palace at Tzarskoe Seloe, a district just outside St Petersburg, where she main- tained a household of dignity and affluence, The Palace was furnished with articles of great beauty and immense value, and was undoubtedly

опе of the great homes of Russia.

and with what authority the When was the last time you legislation was enteted, little heard anything from your hus- defnite information could be band? January 25, 1019.

obtained.

was

But....poor Princess Paley..

Her Her last hope was gone. home hall been taken from her, and an English court had cald. It was legal.

We maintained that Princess was a person who hed

"At "ded outside the confines of the

Brst an attempt Republic" within the meaning made to nationalise almost

Well may the have said to of the first decree, and that, everything, but there were ex- after the seizure by the Revolu- press enactments in favour of herself: "My husband has beca tionaries, the Paley Palace was tollers, which provided that, in murdered, Would an English.. a "museum" within the second, cases where they were con- court tell me that was legni.. and that, the British Govern cerned, the Jaw might be too?"

TOMORROW: corniscti the existing Russian their favour. And what happened to you?-- Government since

др 1924, month I escapeti from English court was bound to give that the

effect to the Russian law,

What happened to your hus- band?-Five days later he was murdered in prison.

the Russia. without a passport.

There were in London one or two Russian lawyers who had practised in the Tsarist courts before the Revolution, and they had endeavoured to translate, Next and indeed to understand, varlous documents and publica- tions which emerged from Soviet Russia, but the results of their burg tho Revolutionaries, investigations were inconclusive, appeared at the Palace, and from that moment the Grand Duke and the Princess were never allowed to live in their home again.

A month or so after the Reva- lution broke out in St Peter-

Court crowded

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One thing, however, abundantly clear: whatever For a time the Princess was form of jurisprudence existed in allowed to perform the mental Russia, it was a system quite task of escorting round the unknown to any other comTM Palace those Comrades of the munity in the civilised world, desired to and on that system Mr Weisz must rely if he were to detent Frincess Paley's claim.

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Mr Blennerhassett And The Yo-Yo

CANADA STAYS IN

THE

•

'FAMILY'

By McKenzie Porter

Inspect her treasures, but that respito, did not last for long. Within a few months the Grand

OTTAWA. ble the American, most visitors Duke was arrested and thrown

In those circumstances the

THE most far-reaching conclude that soon the longest into prison in St Petersburg,

herself was not action came before the courts peace-time agreement undefended frontier in the world The Princess

It was tried arrested, but she voluntarily in the year 1929.

ever made by Canada will be rolledup overnight. followed her husband into before Mr Justice MacKinnon, and the U.S.A. has

the

just city so that she could visit him, a judge of great

been signed.. That, too, did not last long. Soon eminently qualified to adjudi afterwards her husband was cate on a difficult point of law, murdered in prison, and the with a mind divorced from any Princess fled from Russia with feelings of sentiment, however out passport, and finally natural that sentiment might be, arrived in England, where, like so many of her compatriots, she lived without a country or a home,

·

The court was crowded.

had become public knowledge that the Princess was going to tell

of more A story

than interest, and many people were anxious to get a glimpse into a page of history.

Decided to sell ordinary humon

When

she Entereil

It will integrate the eco- nomic resources of the two countries to speed up and cheapen munitions produc tion for the North Atlantic Alliance.

This superficial concept is an affront to the Canadian's spiri- tual depth and a rejection of his magnificent political record,

Since the Korean

wor rifta

a

"Why aren't we in it?” was · rebel, but they suffered thera

But as soon as rather than shed their heritage. their reaction. the little Franco-Irish-Canadian Time has rewarded their pa- lawyer said that the biggest tience and forbearance. danger spot was still Western

The link today consists of Europe, they were mollified.

single, splendid Intangible--that The inference was that Cane- the King of England is also the dian troops were

King of Canada. There is not the mozo once being reserved for aid to the vestige of authority in Canadian emer monarchy, but its existence has British homeland in an

almost incubated the Idea of a profound

aigrrificanoe.

have occurred between Canada Kency. This pleased and the U.S.A. The paralysing everybody.

Canadian rail strike was brought

An Empire is dying, but some-

about by American power poll- There are a thousand influen- thing stronger called the Com-

that the

It will also renew pre- ties. In matters of defence and tlal Canadian families entitled to monwealth is taking its place..

international write the letters UEL, behind And it is in Canada dictions of early fusion be in the sphere of tween Canada

This is proudly in Commonwealth ideal was born. and the co-operation Canada and USA. their names. United States.

undoubtedly will come closer memory of the fact that their People aro

together. But domestically ancestors were United Empire the now asking: "Does the

new pact mean that Canada Canada will maintain her inde- Loyalists who came to will move

more into American orbit ?"

Ten years inter the Soviet Government

to was anxious

currency from obtain foreign abroad and, among other witness-box, the Princess methods, decided to sell the peared to be the most unmoved

Palace treasures.

They began 'negotiations with an English businessman named Weisz, and finally sold him the effects from the Paley for £48,000,

Palace

Mr Weinz bought the pro- perty in absolute good faith to ro-pell in England or elsewhere, being firmaly under the impres sion that the Russian Govem- ment were the legal owners.

In' due

Mr Wels course shipped the goods to London and news of their

the Princess.

the court. person in

Never, throughout her story, did she show the slightest sign of the which she must strain from have been suffering.

Vital

elements

She was calm and dignified. and seemed totally unaware of the intense interest she was creating among the onlookers. Even her counsel seemed

pendence.

the

Angry, Newspapers

Such wide-spread ignorance sules much American and Bri- tish drinking on the subject of

what makes this great nation tick.

An Affront

Connda nfter the Boston Tea Party

rather than live under "Old Glory,"

Nehru 'Saw'

The following story illustrates the birth of this ideal. The Inte Premier of Canada, Mr Macken-

The strongest women's or- zle King, went to London in 1948 Canada has violently resented ganisation in this country is the for the Conference of Common policy in the Far East. U.S.A. criticisms of British Imperial Order of the Daughters wealth Prime Ministers which

Most of Empire, whose members was aceking to bring India in as- Canadian papers keep emphasis worry like angry tens any a full partner. ing that Britain was fighting politician who trier to get the

Communism in Malaya un- Crown rubbed off Ontario auto- Indian Premier, Pandit Nehru, honoured and unsung before the mobile number plates, or sub- had misgivings on two grounds.. North Koreans got their first stitute the Canadian flag for the How could India foin en esso-

Union Jack.

There is no more chance of Canada exchanging John Bull Russian tanks, at for Uncle Sam than there is of pains to make her story as un-Chicago's Anglophobe publisher dramatic as possible.

Col. Bertie McCormick, recely- ing a kzrighthood.

Because

When Premier St. Laurent failed to contribute a brigade to the British Commonwealth Division for, Korea, the average

eltles, Canadian

Her evidence was short, arrival reached' She made in there could be no dlaputo on quiries, saw the consignment the facts, but the vital elements homes, shops, cans, trains, Canadian newspaper "blow its and immediately recognised it in her case had to be proved. clothes, sports and slang resem- top.”.

POP

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Distillers Leith, Scotland

·A SPOT OF PAIUT

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The old look

Loyal French

ciation based on allegiance to a foreign crown? How could ho personally, after eight years in British gaols, be sooopted as: loyal?

Though there are 5,000,000 French Canadians who are jea-

Mr King indicated the way to lous of their language, laws, the historia compromise which culture and religion, which they, was eventually reached. were allowed after honourable defeat in battle, the majority of them hang plotures of the Royal family over their mantelpieces.

He told Mr Nehru that his most treasured possessions hung: alde by side in Iris Oldawn home, One was a proclamation offering Only a few extremists among £1,000 reward for the capture the French-Canadians clamour of his grandfather, die Canadianı for deparation from the Crown, rebol, Willam, Lyon Mackenzie.. and even from Canada' Itself. The other was his oiwi. Order of Yet they foar dissolution in the Merit. American melting pot more than

any other threat to their iden- He, the bosom friend of the city, and would fight to thỏ laặt Britids, was proud of a grand- dlich against any such' abrep, father who had to feo a Drilista: Ben by the U.S.A.

hanging. Could Mr Néluru, om- the point?

Canadian plonversi sfered the samo genuino prievanoca, which