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THE JUDGES SHOULD NOT DISHWASH-

AT LEAST IN PUBLIC

London.

English-

N awkward problem is By George Edinger

perplexing

น

They

were he to appoint a judge for is political views, there would be more trouble than the most urdent politician would

dare

appoint new cannot remove

cellor can only Judges. He those already in office.

Stands Aloof

THE EVEREST STORY

Wavering May Mean Failure

By Raymond Lambert

HE AUCCERS.

of the unit in the direction of tho British Everest ex- North-East Ridge.

Tals is necessity, Orst, to pedition depends now have information concerning on quick thinking. And the the top pf Everest on the higher you go in these Tibetan side, and secondly, as altitudes the harder it is to proof of success.

Not that keep a clear brain.

anybody would the word of these wavering. Colonel Jolm their lives in the arsault. Hunt, the expedition leader, I doub; greatly whether they condition to having decided the best will be in any way to conquer Everest lake more than one photograph.. must now seize the frat Two minutes. chance to put his plan into action.

There is no time for doubt

тел who will havo risked

If he walls, then the mental

To take a photograph at these

Heights presents спотия and tremendous men must

and physical powers of hit culties team will all the time be de- will-power. The

teriorating and their precious take off their gloves to adjust the camera and wihin ene or

oxygen used up.

two minutes their fingers wil freeze.

Even If

being

The rest is a problem of lao tles. I believe the best solution is for the assault team of two

they ayold men to stay the night at the frozen, It will lake. 20 minutes nol camp at 27,580 ft. and to half an hour to get any back into their the following day, weather and movement oxygen supply permitting, to fingers. make the assault immediately. This means that after taking

From what I was able to see the photographs they will

n considérable when I went up with Sherpa immobilized for Tensing on May 28 last year, time while their streifth is

there are 110

difficulties in

the climbing on

the oral part of

this last lap.

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The tiom go the valley between the snow and rocks. Here the dren- ger is the ove:- hangin it of cornices snow which are unable and ilable to break away

the At

slightest nolte made

by the

men.

I believe that the last 450 N. below the South Summit

arc

very cocky, and

EVEREST

Highest poire ruched by |Lombart 20,215 f..

{LOUTH COX

the team will have to climb over deteriorates,1

zone much, steeper than they have met till now;

be

weakening and thale Bubnygen

supply.getling

tower,S

THe "arcant dendiri. marily on the quantity of oxygen that the min and Sher- pas have been able to ket up 10 the last campinat be- tween 27,000 and 20,000 ft.

It is possible to go without constant oxy- Ren to about 28,000 but It is extremely -hard and the climber's 'con-

dilon, rapidly

+

So the team should leave the last camp with sufficient oxy- From what Tensing and Igen for at least 12 hours. This were able to seo from the will cut the effects of altitude Lhotse Glacier, I have the im- by

half. judge and his extraordinary

pression that it is very long.. impressed

I hope the team going, up, and that there are probable will remember that the climb difficulties which may slow does not stop at the summit of the team's ascent or even halt Everest. They must also use

oxygen coming" down,

KLEYS

men. To meet the ris and then pronounce his findings illegal. The Union leaders did face. Besides, the Lord Chan- ing cost of living and offset in open court, giving his rea- not want to break the low. the burden of taxation the sons. Once he decides, note did not question the fairness of Government suggest raising but a judge in a higher court the judge. Instead they waited till the law was changed-they the salaries of Britain's can overrule him.'

The 41 men now affected by walted more than twenty years. senior Judges, the judges in the Government's proposals are To ensure the impartiality of the High Court, and the the only people in England who her judges, Britain.has tajcen Court of Appeal by a tax- can indict the death praalty every conceivable procaution. THE special character of the

upon a private citizen. Govern- Once appointed, a judge holds responsibilition free £1,000 a year. Now it

ments defer to them. When in his office for life. True, he may is true that other salaries 1022 a Conservative Govern- be removed by a majority vote both on the pubile and the number of of both houses but that has judge himself. English judges wear a traditional garb that and wages have been rising. ment arrested

nover happened. On the other

it. dates from the first years of the But the judges' salaries are Irishmen and deported them to

their own country to be tried and, ho cannot expect pro- eighteenth century. When they already high, or seem so. for plotting, on British soll, the motion to a higher post, That

no trovel round the country on overthrow, a happens to rarely that it is not creat

to hold their Assizo circult ruled that, by the law of worth considering. Sa the judge courts as they have done for man cauld be need not be influenced by fear seven centuries they are re- shipped overseas for trial and

favour. He does ived with ancient pageantry. A hope of that

extradition по

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special service is held for them or the

His in the Parish Church, a special covered a political offence. The repubility of ministers

nen were freed.

in feelings of the populace, Again, 1951, while the Labour Govern- only master is the Law.

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card a right introduced during the war Judge decided that

particular police this

LIE

the people but also makes the Judge

of his peculiar aware power HE is not a civil servant, for ended when the war was over. none-of-the-judges-knew, reply. He stands aloof he cease to do so. The pollee stopped demanding when they started their career he will lose the respect that all identity cards.

that they would end it on the have- felt for him since 17

Selected Bench.

from the

English judge ruled that a cer- wholo body of advocales

tain tax 0.000

imposed by King (barristers, there are

of Charles I ran

Counter to the for their Law of England and chosen

That and know three centuries ago.

Impartiality

Would OTHER

them)

was

powerful bodies, force of character of them, defer with- ledge of the law, they are all £1,000 clear out question to the Judges. men outstanding in their call- Such is the argument for when all his taxes had been In 1926 the Trade Union Ing. It is the duty of the Lord raising judges salaries. Those

called pald. Is it just, ask the op- Congress

Gen- Chancellor, the senior legal who support it argue that the cral Strike,

call The ponents of the scheme, to single

was officer of the Crown, who ap- myste qualities which make a

to ace obeyed but, in ten days, the points them,

will venish out the well pald judges for

that they judge respected strike was ended by the Trades should be so. tuch special, tax-free favour.

should people see him driving Union leaders. For a High The Lord Chancellor changes his own cor or washing up the Court Judge had ruled it was

Government. But, dishes,

"Yes," its supporters argue. The English Judge (Scotland is unaffected by the proposal) ** the trustee of our liberty. As

certainly such, he

deserves

peculiar consideration. To give him that is not only right. It is expedient."

with the

THE NEW LOOK RUSSIANS

He Interprets SPRING MORE SURPRISES

NOW It is true that, under Bri-

Notein's

unwritten Constitu-

ilon, the high Court judge s quardian of the ancient liberties of England. For England 19 governed by the rule of law and though Parliament makes some of the laws, though not all, the Julge is the interpreter. And

he dues not only Interpret the

customs

WON

New York. WONDERS never cease with the warin-hearted New Look Russians to the bewilderment of New Yorkers.

At his Long Island estate,

.

for

are going back to school courses in courtesy-especially towards New York's foreign language minorities.

AMERICA COLUMN

from:

PRE

NEWELL ROGERS

DRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S Budget men have cut 364 until recently barred and an all-out British offensive to million dollars (£130 million) take over our independence... out of the Atomic Energy Com- mission's funds, listed at 2,000 million dollars (£984 million).

and

Herb COMEDIAN named Shriner

an actresE named Celeste Holm had a right to feel lonesome and neglected on TV the other night.

During the time they appear chessed on TV, President Eisenhower was speaking-over the radio only.

And Moscow accepts a seven- year-old invitation, to a ten- man Russo-American

this tournament in New York summer,

TV stars didn't get a look-la PRACE yourself for a stapper- with the audiences. Ding piece of news-America

long delays in building A- Almost certainly it means powered aircraft, but not in A- power plants for submarines, which are well under way.

MCCON. FAPTAIN JOSEPHI

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NELL jun., new top acc-10 MiGs shot down needed eight years to argue his superiors into training him a pilot.

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Jaws that Parliament makes but aiso those it does not make.

Comero, guarded against · all For there are three systems of

Russia's Vyshinsky, Law in England. They are not Andre assembled in any code but to United Nations delegate and a a safeguard deputy Foreign Minister, Elves gether they form for that Individual freedom of a big party for UNOlles. which, the British are so proud.

There are the Lasys that Parliaments make and

those which Kings in Council made before the English Parliament evolved. Some of these are very ancient indeed; the oldest dates back to the thirteenth century. These form the Statuto Law. Along with Statute Law

is a satellite of Britain, TOVE unlocked gates of Ellis stand certain ancient

The discovery Is announted Irland for Harry Girth older stil. They date from in a leading article in the after they apparently closed on They put him in the Medical "time immemorial" and

time Chicago Tribune, Joey new him for life.

Corps. That was in 1940, Then Immemorial is reckoned as the

An escaped German FoW., he they made him a navigator. He year 1199 for the memory of paper in the chain owned by

gave himself renowned Delain-balter Colonel

up earlier this had to ny 60 times in bombers further. McCormick. goes back no

month and was granted tem- over German Europe,

When Korea flared up "The British Flith, porary freedom to marry his mon Law of England"

it says: "Generals American sweetheart, Evelyn tald he was too old for it. Not

and Ridg- Godel.

until last September did the However, there is also a body. Colum

that the judges have Marshall, Bradley, made themselves. It happened way, Ambassador Aldrich, and If they want to take a honey harassed air force ship him out this way. As succeeding genera- Governor Earl Warren of moon In Canada or Mexles held at 30.

California alt in the Coronation, will be able to re-enter on the with his U.S. ceremonies an willing repro- German quota wentatives of a satellite bride and become a citizen,

Now the British Government 461 87, Senor! and "Marel,

to

Monsieur are to fall more MUTE Alexander Tinglino hasi thinks the time has come

of New won a easily from the lips comploto the conquest.”

1,075-dollar court this is the York police officere. To the Tribund

Judgment against two other Captains who correspond, mules who' slandered him in meaning of the recent Trans atlantic name-calling: "We see roughly to London inspectors, sign language.

man

Those customs form the "Com-

of Inws

tions of judges Interpreted the law they bound their successo to follow their decisions. What A Judge decided in 1253 still country, binds a judge in 1933. The sum of all those Judgments forms the English Caso law".

A judge today must disen- tangio

grstens, re- all thoro conelly them with each other

--

they

Gallantly, he says, "I'm just a lucky jat jockey with a good of good training."

plant and a

Camera too

There are two methods of using oxygen but the apparatus weighs about the same (about THE

THE last 300 t. to the top of 381b.) for each.

The Important thing is that Everest, however, offers no serious technical problems, and the climbers must have abso

confidence In their If the climbers can get to this

ap- point with sufficient strength paratus because the danger is and oxygen there is no reason very great. why they should not be the And should It genre to fine- first. to beat

tion they con bo in Everest

lute

great

They will make the assault trouble extremely rapidly using crampons (lee-climbing

Monsoon spikes which it on the boots); OLONEL HUNT'S idea of 100 ft. of горе

of for both them, a few pliens (metal-pegs) Vettempting a third assault for the rocks, and short after waliing 10 or 12 days at length of rope, say about 30 ft., Camp 4 or 5 is excellent, but I which they can leave at a diff doubt whether the members of cult spot to guarantee their the expedition" and the Sherpas South safe return.

who have been upto In their pockets they must Col will be in a condition to have nourishment which is go up again. easy to digest, because at this It seems to me that this idea

does altitude -digestion

not is possible only if Colonel Hunt

would spell disaster.

work well. A stomach cramp has men, in perfect condition. The best things they could have been able to rest the

and also if the highest · cœmps ·

tako are some glucose, dried violent winds. raisins, and, perhaps, as I BO These camps must alco be well remember appreciating. lted out, oxygen and into are. some condensed milk to ease passing. lassitudo is gaining the throat, which is always in- slowly, and the monsoon le ap- flamed and дого at these proaching.

heights.

Only a very light team, leav- A camera is indispensableng Camp 5 with oxygen would to take a photograph from the have any chance of success.

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