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London Kapan Sucette

Young Thugs Burn

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London.

powerful are PETER BURGOYNE'S.

Britain's trade

union

Boy

bosses? On paper, with News From Britain

their millions of followers

in every industry, immense-

ly 80.

Atlantic instead of the British bundle of

But that power is a reality Comet IV." only so long as they command

the unswerving loyalty of the Pension plan

ronje and file. And many

Britons are beginning to doubt

Ughted Alreworks which exploded in his face.

that they do command such DRITAIN'S Socialista last length of rope, then kicked and

loyalty.

Pige

Sir Harold keeps watch on the Divorce Court

I SUPPOSE that in

By J. W. M. THOMPSON

In 1830 e Intervened in 30 cases: but then there were only 3,025 detrees awarded.

most people's minds the Queen's Proctor is a faceless snooper in a bowler hat who prowls

So the Assistant Queen's one recent year the Proctor around looking for entangled in the lives of the hushed-up bits of highest and the humblest. He Proctor, who is a solicitor, is in intervened in 25 cases only

even came into the picture when charge of the day-to-day work, out of a total of 29,275 divorces, evidence in divorce the marriago of Mr and Mrs He has a Senior Legal Assistant, Ernest Simpson was being dis- also, a colieltor, and what is cases.

solved in 1930.

rather enigmatically described A London solleitor's clerk as a 'supporting staff.” named Francis Stephenson then They all fit themselves into a dimmish rooms at the Presented the Proctor with an few

minutes from Whitehall.

It seems a modest force to match against the big battalions who crowd the divorce courts nowadays; rather like,sutting e bicycle to keep abreast of the Comet.

This week he is cutting a dif- ferent Agure. In the Milford Davies aced for the Proctor's affidavit alleging that the docroo ̈ Treasury Solleitor's office a 1CW Proctors in their campaign to Haven case, Mr Justice Arihian

assistance on the purely legal arguments Involved!

Lord Milford Haven, in seek ing a declaration that a divorce obtained against him in Mexico is valid in Britain, raised a point with more legal intricacles than the ordinary run of divorce court business.

vani.

Typical

should not be mado absoluto bo- cause "material facts" had been concealed and that there had obtaining "collusion" In been the divorca,

The Proctor had a busy time investigating this and various other allegations that were made about the Simpson divorce-but in the end all were dismissed as unfounded. The decree was granted, and Mrs Simpson duly married the Duke of Windsor.

Now a later Proctor has been

Cheering

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In spite of this apparently small scale, many a victory has been scored by successivo thwart divorces which would contravene the low.

Some of these are rather picturesque epleodes -- as En .of a woman the unmasking who had spiritedly invented a wicked twin sister to take the blame for her own lurid past. But unhappiness, oflen £21 sordid circumstances,

the staple ingredient,

How do they track down the

And every successful inter- casca in which it is their duty to vention by the Proctor Медпе intervenc? Sometimes they act the same thing - the fixing

where

-

Who is the Queen's Proctor? asked to help unravel the mat- on the basis of "information together in matrimony of two

Duke's received" This may be I may say that personally he la moniat tangle of the

an people who agree, if in nothing not at all like the seedy cooper time as a sort of expert witness righteous acquaintance of some bonds.

cousin, Lord Milford Haven, this arcnymous ποιο from a else, In wishing to break the of popular mythology. Sir Harold Kent, who was appointed on questions of divorce law, miscreant; or it may be a signed

It is the law, however, that to the post just five years ago, is

I imagine It is a more agree- denunciation by come franker collusivo divorces must be pru- a typical inhabitant of the higher able role than the one he is ac- Informant.

vented, and the Proctor and Whitehall altitudes: a tall, lean, customed to all. Whatever the

They are also, of course, often his men are merely doing what Gubile barrister-turned-civil ser- legal necessity for the office (and invited by the courts to interest society has told them to do.

that Scotland, themselves in a CASC past it must be said He has the right

manage comfortably something fishy appears to have (Rugby and Merton) and the seems la

without a Proctor), few people been going on. right presence.

would relish the job apart from

A hint of the restrained scale incorrigible Paul Prys,

of their activities is given in the official Civil Estimates, in which. Marriage.is o gamble, for 1058-59 a mero £2,500 is mitedly, and there seems budgeted for "divoree interven- Imrielale prospect of either tions under the Matrimonial legislative Or Judicial action Causes Act, 1800."

altering that. But should the

of chance The sum of £2,500 would same strain hardly cover a week's expenses for some superior investigator in the plushy modern manner -Mar Ian Fleming's Jame

Aloof.....

He is paid £6,000 a year: but then he is also the Treasury Solleitor, a much more impor- tant post. This makes him one of the Government's principal legal consultants, and, in fact, How does Sir Harold go about leaves only a little of his time the Proctor's routine?

Main

duty

Hia

And in Glasgow police were to spare for his more mysteri- method in to keep himself aloof hunting the Teddy Boys who ously named activity as Queen's from the matrimonial battle throttled # ten-year-old into Proctor.

felds, acting instead as a general лерг unconsciousness with a

supervisor of the department their punched him as he lay sobbing.

Bought by Glasgow the young thugs police were who caught and bound a boy then burned

Him with lighted paper.

Adso

No doubt this policy of per- sonal Inconspicuousness appeals to Sir Harold's temperament. He practises it in his other sphere,

Treasury Solleftor.

Bond, say.

His 'cases'

One aspect of the prosess which disturbs me, as it must disturb others, is the element of the lottery which seems to enter into it.

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into the workings of the courts

even the divorce courts?

One previous Proctor, Lord that in his Desart, estimated day thrro divorces out of four Dweek rounded

were obtained by the collusion of both parties amiant the Last week Britain's mighty Conservative opponents and ac

judge, How accurate that Agure Novertheless, it is as the Proc- state-run international airling, used them of plagiarism,

15 wo cannot know. At all The Torles, they charged, had

tor that he looms largest in the B.O.A.C was all but kam-

events, it makes 25 interven- stolen their nalonul pensions stung by a

public mind. As such his main

However, I note that it is tions out strike of main-

In this capacity one of his

of 29,215 divarcos plan,

duty is to see that the evidence duties was handling the legal the same sum as appeared in cem tenance engineers;

a strikingly small pro striko A

given in divorco cases is ac- which in its incepiton did not 1 doubt if even the most

preliminaries for the Bank Rate the previous year's estimates. portlan, In the face of such blind rurate and honest, that there has Tribunal; and I remember one It is cheering to see that in have the official support of the fervid Socialist really belleved

collusion ΠΟ

Does anyone really belleye this,

something of a fallen has not been allowed to that the insitution, and. Ge- day there was The improbability of the viciousness, even liberal-minded been

the charge apart,"

Socialist citizens are finding it difficult to the parties, and that essen- The strikers thumbed their pension plan had not been resist the advocates of the "eat" tal facts have not been con- stir among the ranks of bar- tum heads In this branch of tivities of the Queen's Proctor risters assembled for the hear public expenditure, at least. keep collusion out of divorce cealed.

not The Proctor's office was ings when it was realised that noses al union exhortations to published sufficiently long for and the birch,

CERC07. Does Sir Harold Kent 'Solicitor was able to tell me the exact rate himself, I wonder? return to work while settlement thu Tory planners to have fled

It is, you may rightly may, a the Treasury

which interventions are tali order. In trying to carry it actually present, and visible, in at

being, made at present, but in out the Proctor Onds himself the flesh.

men's union bosses.

of their grievances was negotiat- it and produced a thinly dis- No change ed in the agreed manner. They guised copy, as was alleged. preferred to listen to the No, the Socialist anguish agitators in their midst.

The same ODAY'S hand is an old-timer, trude union

but it is still one of my workers on favourites. I sat West and for building site want of anything better to do the Thunes. opened the three of clubs. Dum-approval my played the nine and my leaders they partner, Harold Vanderbilt, | page after went into a 10-minute huddle. desperation,

Eventually, he came to the winning decision and played the eight of clubs. South had to play

of

deflance of their

was shown by the giant Shell

was caused by the Tories' WITH the Americans And "anything you can do, we con do better polley.

Russians rappled in the sputnik race, It's worth record- It's hard for the Socialists to ing that they wouldn't know portray their opponents as the what was happening to thele ou the banks of apostles of reaction when the man-made moons but for Despite the dis- Tories produce a' welfare plan masterpiece of British scientião their clected which looks more "socialist" engineering -- the mighty radio engineered stop- than the Socialists'.

telescope at Jodrell Bank.

stoppage until, in The Tory pension plan-tho

fired the lot of them,

It

their employers more you earn, the more you It is awe-inspiring in sheer pay, the more you get-is not size, has been described designed primarily as a vote- like this: "Upturn the dome of This new industrial weapon- catelier (though electorally it St Paul's Cathedral, and sling it the lightning pay-off-was em- will do them no harm). It is between twin towers, each the Coltuan_" half-built aimed at salvaging the existing height of Nelson's A

his singleton ace and when I got ployed again at in with the queen of diamonds 1 power station In Kent. There, National Insurance Fund which And It revolves on a railway was able to make four club the men had walked out in is running rapidly into the red. which would just t

tricks and set the hand.

support of the workers sacked

In an ordinary game, I am from the Shell site. Their em-

sure that my partner would have ployers acted swiftly and fred Blind viciousness

played the eight of clubs much them.

quicker, but this was the Anal

ALESion of the American Whist In both cases the action was

London's

Square.

into

spacious Trafalgar

Both Americans and tussinna must depend 01 the Jodrell.

COME of those who cheered Bank telescopo to track their Home Secretary Butler's space projectiles. For no other

League's 1934 team champion-drastic. But the employers hud refusal recently to reintroduce telescope on carth is equipped ship and Mr Vanderbilt thought had enough of responalble, the hand might prove important, unofficial stoppages and bicker corporal punishment for crimes to do so.

It turned out that it did. At my. And their hands

the other table our partners had forced by the inability

were

of

of violence were having second

thoughts as newspapers head- This service is provided free Iined storica of Teddy Boy of charge, and proud Belons ure Indignantly slapping down

bid and made five diamonds. If the trade union bosses to con- viciousne Harold had gone up with the trol their men. queen of clubs, South would

showdown. Bui

In the London area surgeons the suggestion that the Ameri-

have made four or five no trump This sort of action is hailed operated to save the sight of a cana be asked to bear part of

the cost of the telescope. and won the board for his team. by those who demand a once- young victim of Teddy Boys.

Two feen-age thugs wearing One London newspaper has As it was, we won the board and-for-all management. labour and when the,final results were

moderates Teddy Boy's "winter uniform," described this suggestion as "an tabulated that board turned out claim that such a showdown block duffle-coats, had thrown a insulting proposal."

best sterile, at to be our exact margin of vic would be at tory, so this play had decide worst disastrous, the whole tournament.

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Where a showdown is needed | Is between the official, democra- tically elected trade union leaders and the trouble-makers among their members who challenge their authority,

Who ore theso trouble- makers? When a question like this was put to an official unifon representative, Mr Jim Mat- thews, at the height of the B.O.A.C. trouble, he answered: #1 belleve there are many who: would rather see the Russian T.U. 104 operating across the

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