1953-04-06 — Page 4

·HER MAJESTY'S JUDGES

SAME PAY FOR

66 YEARS

Faced with the determined opposition in Parliament not only of the Labour Party and Liberals but also of a number of its own back-bench supporters, the British Government has suddenly postponed discussion on the controversial Judges' Remuneration Bill, which proposes to give 79 British High Court Judges a tax-free £1,000 a year on top of their present salaries, until after the Easter

recess.

Few would dlapate that a rise in the "wage packets" of Iler Majesty's Judges is long overdue, or that the dignity of the Bench must be upheld by a certain way of living, but the tax free proposed

wills. marriages and about shipping; while Judges of the King's Bench Division periodic- СПОСВ at the various ally try

Assize towns.

The name, King's Bench allowance Division, is a reminder that at draws attention to the enormous one time kings were judges. The sums that would be required to three periods of the legal year, carn them It WBB

the law terms of Hilary, Easter aubject io

an and Trinity the Michaelmas income tax. It represents an increase of taxable salary of term was not instituted till Inter to Christmas, over £5,000 a year for a Pulse correspond Judge and some 231,000 for the Easter and Whitsuntide, when and it is felt the Kings of England were Lord Chancellor, that it would create a precedent accustomed to hold their courts, and would open the door to or "wear their crowns" for the D similar consideration of national affairs wage demands of

and legal business. nature.

It

extraordinary fact is nn that no. High Court Judge has

MEDIAEVAL TIMES

The king and the barons st

had any increase in salary since in state to try private disputes

1887, and England and Wales 1832. When the standard re- muneration of a judge was fixed then, it was intended to make him a rich man, in a position where he could mix with the great on terms above temptation.

nary

THEIR SALARIES

e

In 1851. The President of the Probate Division and the Lords ether Justices of Appeal, with the Puise Judges are

year. A A

Couri

the

than other

losed

"puisne

the

Printing of

marked the

are

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1959.

"I suppose this means goodbye to all the little cupboards and sideboards we were going to build under the Do-it-yourself' scheme."

London Express Hervice

Beverley Baxter reflects on the Tito visit

FROM UNDER THE HAT OF HOLLYWOOD

ПЕРВА

By David Lewiu

HOFFER. the Hollywood columnist who specialises in gessly about the film people, has feuded with stars from Chapun to Orson Welles. Now she has written a book* about her. feuds, About herself this butcher's daughter says: "Hollywood hams don't scare me. Once you have looked a four-legged boz in the face and dissected a alde of pork no two-legged ham to going to reem important enough to frighten you." FOLLYWOOD to Hedda Hopper. is a

H°

place dominated by her hats, hér gossip, her American newspaper column, and the fact that at one time she had been a film actress.

That is Miss Hopper's way of looking at. it. For years, since she married an uctor, she had been in show business, ap- pictures from "Battle of Hearts" In 1916 to "Sunset. Boulevard" two years ago.

pearing in

THE SHORT MEN WHO

A

DOMINATE

race

years

Distinction

AFFAIRS

the land to

IMPRESSED

Unfortunately for Hitler, he

COMMANDING

AUTHORITY

bank

managers

"all shouts

But by the time "Sunset Doulevard" Was made Hedda Hopper was famous as a column- lat- and little remembered by her renders in the States as an ex-actress, Her book“ skims around among the big fish In the Hollywood pond.

From Garbo

#0

John Gilbert fell in love with Garbo--he w18 her lending man in "Queen Christina”. (shö refused to have Laurenco Olivier in the part)—and built

black marble

bathroom for

£5,000: All too

her.

It cost him Garbo

sald was: "It's

shiny..

to Crawford

KISS HOPPER know. Douglas Fairbanks sen. well enough say that he used to buy books "by the yard" (and never read them) with bindings to match the room.

10

o Pulsnc Judge of between subjects at the Palace not since of Westminster, and Edward IV for three days on one sat occasion in the King's Bench,

In mediaeval times, a stately water procesion opening of the term at West-

THE stars in it are the veterans. minster, but this has now been

Hedda worked with Garbo. superseded on Old Michaelmas

Garbo, she found, used to dis Day by a procession through the Chancellor central hall of the Law Courts,

appear for exercise to a friend's The Lord ligh

mansion and swim in the pool receives £10,000 which includes It marks the opening of the new

wearing a huge straw hat and £4,000 as Speaker of the House term, and is the only time of

nothing else. The owner. of the of Lords, and the Lords of year when so many Judges can

place and his staff. Went of are paid be seen together in their magni- Appeal in Ordinary

riding on

on those visits. 26,000 a year. The Lord Chief ficent robes.

The Tipstaff walks in front,

And it was Garbo,

scored Justice of England receives a

bound

CCORDING to scien- pursuits the tall 'uns. may letters of protest against his visit, of the ridiculous-whereas the his pictures he seems to possess a year, and carrying an ebony staff

are always in short about the same vertical and of being watched when she was of £8,000

silver bands, and sur-

tists the

human excel, but when it comes to Here was a man who was not Germans

as Stalin. acting, who had a screen put the Master of the Rolls, £8,000. with

Is growing controlling human destiny only an enemy of freedom but supply of these qualities. Hitler lateral measurements

made the

around her on a Germans sorry for Logle will argue that there are

Bim set so that an enemy of the Vatican, These two salaries, like that of mounted by a crown of silver- gilt. It is his task to transfer the Lord

taller. In fact, when the little 'uns will take

themselves by first being sorry a larger number of great Hitle the director had to sit. behind Chancellor, were fixed

to prison persons accused of

at her performatice contempt of court. Preceding science is not engaged on charge.

"Why did you rob the Church for himself. Even when he was men then great tall men because it looking

which to through two peop-holes Lord

of their lands?" asked one of my Commander-in Chief as well as there are more from the

Chancellor

preparing new devices for the Mace and the Purse

I was reminded of this Parliamentary colleagues. With Chancellor and Dictator, he only draw, but logie is never the Inst destroying man, it is finding when I had the pleasure of put the land from the Church by a single medal. Above every

"I wore a modest uniform adorned word in wisdom. of State: The

hesitation Tito replied: Purse is

of pro- embroided and lined ways and means richly is a Judge of the High with red silk. Formerly 11 longing his

and meeting President Tito on and gave it to the peasants, who thing, he had to remain the little រ

the Lord contained the Great Seal, but adding to his inches.

his official visit to London. are all Roman Catholics. So far man. Chancellor, the Lord Chief

this is now kept in the House of

Here was a man who, with there has been no move by the Lords. Justice of England and

Yet, from my personal a few thousand patriots, peasants to restore

was confronted with two men of THE Ave-foot-four or the five- Master of the oils.

The Lord High Chancellor

the Church." certain pinned down several German robe of black silk observation and a

moderale height who were not foot-six looks out on the world The High Court of Justice is wears h

laced with gold amount of historical re- and Italian divisions in the

sorry for themselves at all. There and realises that he must carve divided into the Chancery Divi- elaborately

The Lord Chief search, I have reached the war. Every day he walked slon, the King's Bench Division trimmings.

was no inferiority complex about his way with a sharp sword. The nro made Into Churchill or Stalin. Yet who is six-footers and the Probate, Divorce and Justice wears the robes of

there who The Chan High Court Judge, scarlet and conclusion that the dynamic with death and every night

ambassadors, governors, diplo can declare with

ald Admiralty Division.

that the aggressive mats, E spoke English slowly, and bur HR

Dssurance cery Division deals with con- ermine, and the gold chain. Then leadership of the world will he slept with it.

Stain and directors, but somewhere behind trusts, come the Master of the Rolls continue to come, not from

quaintly, but he was prepared qualities of both

them

tower of tracts, partnerships,

In the ivory When the war

were not was over to answer anything. Undoubtedly Churchill

originally mortgages and similar matters; and the various Judges in their

by their and full glory of scarlet and ermine, the six-footers, but from the he liquidated his rivals and he was much impressed by what stimulated

modest supreme authority there is a Divorce Probate,

short chap who five-foot-sevens. In manly Admiralty Division with disputes carrying their black caps.

formed a Communist dic- he saw of Great Britain even if, physical stature?

change" and they must do, his as a matter of precaution, we tatorship. He plundered the gave a good imitation of a police

bidding. Catholic Church and con- state. The original idea of the

I know that every fairy story ducted trials on the approved visit seemed wrong, but it came

ends with the girl marrying a Communist system. Stalin right. Of that I am certain.

IN 1938 the head of the British tall handsome prince.

а In regarded him as one of the But how was it that this man, Amy was General Sir William properly organised community we The modern jewels in his crown,

this son of a peasant, was able Ironside, who was something like, should alter that. to defy the Axis armies, selze six-foot-five inches in height. love story should always end: power

that was Quite properly he declared early "So she married her five-foot-six In a country monarchical in tradition, des- in 1939 that the British, Army admirer who was neither dark ready for anything

but sort of mouse- kidered troy his enemics, defy Stalin and was

and nor fair build up the strongest milltary would teach the Germans a lesson coloured, and lived happily and You will recall the asto force in Central and Western if they tried any nonsense. I auccessfully for the rest of their

remember a few hours later-a-lives." nishment and the doubts Europe?

Tory MP saying to me!

"The with which the world heard

That is what Tilo taught us To help answer that query, let trouble with Ironside is that he is the news that he had broken us look at some of those who set so tall that his head gets dizzy by his visit,

her bizarre sido. Her with the Kremlin. The ex- the design for 'dictatorship. In in the rarified atmosphere which

Having begun with Tilo, let us

Ford, which she drove herself, January 1939 I went to Rome on he breathes.'

WAS pure white with white retum to him just for a moment. perts said that it

Was the occasion of Neville Cham- trick to cheat the West. berlain's visit, and

men are saying upholstery. A siren was axed my first

At any rate, Ironside was re- Many shrewd

the war of the West la

the front to make people How could Yugoslavia, sur- glimpse of 11 Duce was in the moved and we put in General that

against Communism, And that Jooic at it. rounded by hostile Soviet absurd scene, afterwards buries- Gart, who was the proper size. when we sustain and strengthen Her home she furnished with satellites, make open breach aim of the Dictators.

aued by Charlie Chaplin in his

Communist Let us look back to the first

like ne paintings and rare Chinese framed... under with the Communist tsar in Mussolini welcomes Chamberlain power

war when tall men

were in Yugoslavia and a Red dictator silk paintings In

glass were in the dining roo Britain Arthur like Tilo we are simply sharpen- the Kremlin?

and Halifax at the station.

Alexander Woollcoll, the writer, Balfour was like an aristocratie ing the knife that will destroy

asked about the glass coverings. "He wants our

long stem and per- us. lly with dollars," Short, pudgy, with a protrud-ly

Said Joan Crawford: Bo that Tha petals.

brilliant said the Americans and it ing chin, Mussolini stood at the Birkenhead

Once also tall, and

more-we must admit nothing will splash the silk. Wis

The gravy I serve doesn't was quite true. "He wants core of the platform while it dominated the House not only legie in that argument, but also

Incoming train stopped fifty armaments from the West," yards short. Whereupon Musso with the glory of his mind but once more we must remember match the colour la their back-

ground."

Hedda Hopper was born with said the British-and it was hurried to meet the train just as his commanding physical the limitations of logic. Com-

on inquiring eye. Her make- quite true. "I am a Com- the engine driver realised his presence. Nor was the monocled munism can never be destroyed a pigmy. by the sword. The world is munist" said Tito, "but I could only happen in Italy.

mistake and started forward. It Austen Chamberlain

up is good in other respects divided into rival camps today, He, too, was tall and elegant.

too. She says: "I was bom refuse to bow the knee to

with a struggle on two fronts.

Jungs in a storm. But there was a little Welsh- First there is the

and Its Today uncle, a village cobbler. From satellites a stronger Russia than producer,"

And, stature, Lloyd history has ever known,

had Tito's defiance of the Kremlin THAT night at the Pallazo George looked at the glants and secondly, there is the ideological Multer, ne

Venezia I met the Dictator in knew that before the war was the blow that a small had suffered since his rise to it instead of or which emperor and they would be his

He was wearing gune far he would be the war of Communism against De- power. By that rebellious was a sartorial mistake. In fact,

marstrały. Nor was he content gesture Tito declared that Com- the great man

looked like a merely to dominate Parliamen:. munism was not a creed which second-rate walter in a doubtful He helped to destroy the tall and

as rose above national

just · be. ambitions. Soho cafe. Next day, at the mighty Kitchener, "He is suffering

Halg to from grandee- march past at the Forum, ho forced the handsome ism,' said Stalin scornfully, but stood on a hidden box to take place himself finally under the no pistol shots rang out in the salute, thus adding ten Ave-foot-six Foch. Belgrade. The Great Bear could inches to his stature.

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CURIOSITY

MISTAKE

when

Perhaps it is this inferiority of height which puts ideas into the heads of men whom nature has moulded in 'miniature. A man of six feet of mera

regime

When Fairbanks was, married to Beth Sully, daughter of -s cotton magnate, she used to pawn her wedding jewellery to pay for their trips to Europe year after year.

When Fairbanka jun, married Joan Crawford, Fairbanks, sem. was displeased. Even then the younger Fairbanks aristocracy.

was con-

part, of "the Hollywood

·With a shout JOAN CRAWFORD, too, had

H.

I ran outchout any

man who was brought up by his of imperialistic Russ threat with good ·

his

moderate

IMITATORS

was Napoleon who created

mocracy.

THE

IMPRESSIONS

shall not know peace

In our time, but there is no deterrent to war so potent as the knowledge that neither side can win That position has been achieved by the immenso rearmament of the West.

Ultimate victory lies not in the design for modern dictator- force of arms but in the realm If the WEREFORE when I was in mineering becomes a mare bully, ship, and his imitators have been of ideas and ideallam. vited with other MP's to meet But the little chap who is deter- Vaat in number. He cherished free world of the West can create Tile, I had more than the usual rained to achieve power arouses, the phrase "The Little Corporal," a way of life that is fair to all and encouraged it. He was men, and gives full opportunity curiosity

Incrit and, when

famous sympathy and support. Q

exploiting a revolution. against and reward foreigner comes to London. Was-

will disappear like

[T

who is do-

to

he a legend or a man, a mounte- "Take Hitler for example. It the king and the aristocrats, so high achievement, then Com- bank or a genius. a patriot should always be remembered what could be better than this munism

of destiny-ave-foot-saven,

Those

an opportunist? My first answer that the inferiority complex was endearing phrase to show that he darkness at the coming of down. to these questions is that he was a German discovery, and Hitler had risen from the ranka?

Tito had never visited the of the required height for men was the very embodiment of the More than that, he was making Western world before.

Germans weakness for wolf-pity. How could Hitler, if he had been an asset of his poverty of inches, understanding eyes of his must He is thick set, but not gross. a giant, have screamed that the In the lists of love he felt at have taken in impressions that ero a great disadvantage, with his will stay with him for over. *"t In fact, he looks splendidly at. victors of the 1014-18 war were tubby gure and

his lack of. gave Russia five months of But the most remarkable feature out to destroy him and, therefore, height, but on the field of battle freedom, Kerensky said to me of his appearance Is his face, Germany? All German fairy

hobarked at his tall marshals many years ago, "and a nation: First:; it is bealthily tanned, Lates..end in death, Just Da which gives a sense of physical Wagner "Ring" and with, the like a dog with theep. Would he that has known freedom will fitness. The features are strong consuming fames of Valhalla, have redealmed the map of nover rest until it has it again."

Europe And rewritton history Ir; and regular, and his eyes are self-pity is not merely

alho and stood six foot or more? Hope is on the march, although, understanding. It was in emollon, it is a passion.

of

no senio » brutal: face. On tho

It is hard to say, but the odds it carries a sharp sword. contrary, it was calm, dignited. The reason that filler did a would undoubtedly have been. Tito has seen freedom, even and intelligent,

than Mussolini against him,

though it was guarded by the Yet the Catholics of Britain was that the Italians have a I do not know how fall London police. It may be ima had inundated their MP with zones of humour-oven sonso President. Malenkov là, but from portant.

tatti Kar, better. Jabi

**Prom Under My Hat." Fredericje

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Well, if they've finihi mending ...ikᦦ water-

and it hasn't been turned; into a orir-vay and it's already closed' Forcing Coronation and Thing and the Flying Squad: "haven't *mos shares, firaL), YOU FEMTH, straight down the next turn.. ing on the right! 1.1K 5.