1959-08-07 — Page 4

BIN PATRICK DEVLIN

"THE CHINA MAIL,. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1959.

Devlin

this man

of

democratic duty

by

JOHN DEANE POTTER

A TAUT-FEATURED, gingery, 53-year-

old Irishman, Sir Patrick Devlin, judge'

of the Queen's Bench, who flew

to

He was brought up as a Roman Catholle, educated at Slony- hurst, and beenme president of the Cambridge Union.

My Justica Devlin, in spite of his Irish ancestry and mec- copper hair, appears at first to be a colourless character. Yet he makes an extraordinary impzet upon any court he presides over.

Nyasaland 12 weeks ago, is the architecte speaks in a neutral, of the report which has caused the greatest uproar in Westminster,

Its 147-page repearl was handed

It

2011

to the Colonial Office recently,

fellows

Investigation began in April when which he New to Atries following the February riots in Nyasa- land.

He was shown metal bottle tops, paper bags, and cigarette ends left by people who met, it was alleged, to put a masssere,

He began is quiet, careful fact-

slfling in the tiny town of Sir Yamba. the administrative the lower capital, bullt un slopes of the 7,000, Mount Zumba.

In the new contemporary Gvernment building he sat us chalemmen of the commission. while African policemen, wear- ing kinkt shurts, blue stock- Ings, and black berels, guarded tao doors.

A promise

He took evidence from detainees, elvil servants, Africans, ny- who wished to come forward. He promised in his gentle, authoritative why t the beginning of the Inquiry: "Any civil servant wishing to give evidence may do so with- out fear that it will ever be come known to anyone or it will ever be used against him." 11s culm, sliletto-sharp inquiries

took him thousands of miles. across the coons-ted Central Africa

Friendly

Patrick, mnisble. 13577~ committal Ls over, inspected. The exhibita and returned to Blantyre, where he continued la question African witnesses in his soft, deep valee. Even

a

The nervous, witing African witnesses soon knew they were in the presence of a friendly, helpful, just man, And brilliant one, for Patrick Devil was making £15,000 a year at the commercial Bar when, at the extremely young

of 42, he was made sge judge. His most famous case was two years ago when he presided at the triaj of Dr Bodkin Adams, Lord Goddard, then the Lord Chief Justice, said that his Fumming up in this murder trial was "qs impeccable as uny I have ever road."

Impact

secente quiet voice as he was talking to friends ver Juneh. The only trace of his Cettle ancestry is shown by an occasional graceful gesture of his long-fingered hand. Although it has gone along like B well-launched rocket, there bes

been anything never dramatic about Devlin's career.

Quiet

hig wife, Be lives with

daughter of the former African diamond magnute Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, on 500-Cre fim at Pewsey In Wiltshire. He has six children, four boys, and twin daughters. But he never is photographed twig- scratching plus or walking along a Wiltshire lone in the carefully chosen corduroys of the genleef yokel,

In London, he lives just as mobtrusively in a flat from which he can walk to the Law Courts in a quarter un hour.

le bas nu hobbles and only

passion.

ane

Brave

profession.

His

He is ne of the most Jealous protectors of the rights of the individual ugainst the execu- tive. This is an attitude which for centuries has run like an golden #hread through English Jaw.

unbroken soil of He is also the first president of the Restrictive Practices Court. There he broke new legal ground in Queen's Bench court No. 7,

The visited Dr Banda in Guelo gael, went to the spot where it Was alleged the massacie hod been prepared. In a clearing in dense bush country, seven miles out of Tilantyre, the main water- camorelal vity f starved ten-and tobacco-grow- ing Nyasand, he followed a The 100-high path through

elephant grass, marked with

leopard and hyena prints.

His work in banning price rings

Lnd other restrictive practices was so effective that the couri did not sit very often.

man is this What sort of a

preying red-head, who was follow tipped to strongly Lord Goddard as Lord Chief

And it is a sacred principle that the judiciary will never be awed or persunded against the facts by whatever Government is in office.

It is, this hallowed democratic liberty which Mr Justice Devlin his # dévastatingly upheld

his in

report Nyasaland.

London Express Service).

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With all due respects to the Lancashire firm which invited applicants for solosmen's jobs to bring thoir wives along to the intorvlow...

Paris Newsletter from J.W.M.Thompson

Cocteau plans

his last film

Paris.

ŢEAN COCTEAU is about to change gear again, artistically speaking.

WITH YUL BRYNNER

AS AN EXTRA

Recently, he has been

he does not see why Bike finishing the redecorating of should be condemned

his "eerlessinstical"

Nothing much can be expeeled. this year. Aiready the charac- turistie stert shutters, looking

it to withstand a riot, going up everywhere.

Bre

In quarter, as elsewhere, shopping is becoming laborious, Even the local dairy has closed, and u longish walk is necessary to buy milk.

Things are so quiet, in fact. that Paris is even bothered about running short of blood. Al least there is a special appeal for blood donors to replace those on the register who have gone away.

London Express Bervice.

Miss Sagan But next year, M, Sainteny things will be promises, different. All dhors and re-

When I asked M. Schoolfer staurants will be open to keep about reports of an "hominent" the elty alive.

Thre will alb be

Z

.So he

divorce, he told me politely-but

"com Armly that they were

And Mlle. Sagan has now laft Paris the Mediterranean for

Anyone who has ever visited to seck Paris in the summer knows that an old chapel at Milly-la- un immediate success with the it is something of a ghost elly Foret, outside Paris. This masses.

Foreign visitors abound, but ende

Not surprisingly, this approach the Parislons move out in bas frightened of Alm pro- single-minded quest for sea and "brilliant" pregramme of events pietsly untrue," period.

He has recently decorated durers, who are well known to sun. The result is that the to dazzle the visitors.

flood into 1 city declarcs. two other chapels the French hove the highest possible tourists

What bothers the French par- restaurants

and ticularly, of course, is that at Villefranche, on the Rivlera.

are closed

amenities aro numerous other

the time their capital is closed Now he is going

make

running at low pressure.

down for the summer, Rome la another tim; and, although he

a sparkling lure for tourists, is only 60, he says it will be his

Even

OL so, there is a lot Today, for example, only hall tust, Evidently Cocteau means

dozen theatres In Parls (and habit to overcome before Paris they number more than 50) are can be chaSSAPORI. it to be a stirring farewell to

open.

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A

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So quiet

He says his film will be even more unusual than Blood of a Poet, that strange production he startled select with which audiences years ago.

It will be called

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It begins to look as though there might be some surprising results.

This absurdity, although hallowed by long tradition, is now threatened.

He is a brisk and businesslike man who talks very crisply of what he hopes to achieve

Rumours...

gain, just when the Riviera is

getting into full, fashionable blast.

The tumours, continue nevertheless.

Meanwhile, Mile. Sagan has delivered a new novel to her publisher. It will appear in September. Its title: Do You Like Brahms..

I am told she insists it must be spelt like that, with two dota and no question-mark.

M. Jean Sainteny has been The main subject of Parls appointed to the new post of gossip hus been provided by Commissioner General

of rumours of an Impending

QUOTE: “Flirting has Tourism.

break-up In the marrluge between Francoise Sugan, the this advantage over · mar. novelist, and Guy Schoeller, the riage-it is like a library publisher.

subscription. You never It is not surprising, in view of their way of fo which rulla to have to read the

Maurice volumo twico." lengthy separations.

Francoise Sagan has spent a Dekobra, the 71-year-old large part of this year at Gassin, bachelor novelist. near St Tropez. while Schoeller

to

And I was interested to learn

that one of his principal alms is end this annual "dead season at the height of the tourist lavasion,

It will be even more interest Ing to see if he is successful,

Hollywood,

FRANK SINATRA himself suid after he and Nancy separated and were divorced, ending ten years of marriage: "We should have been very happy but we weren't.

"I thought another child would help our marriage and we were blessed with Frank Jr. But my endless tours and concerts and night-club engagements and recording dates and business affairs kept me away from home increasingly and we just seemed to drift apart.

we

has been working in Paris.

same

---(London Expresa Berulée).

stardom-&

headaches...

tone.

by

Michael Ruddy

part six

"When I was offered a long- you're gonna have an audience

"He went over to Sinutra Vatican, Sinatra sald, 'I bring 'And you my son,' he said. you to the Vatican and you plug MGM term contract by

with the Pope? These things are first. moved 10 California and I arranged

And Frankie Crosby! My gal" months in advance 'Are you a fenar? made up my mind to make our and you just don't have An said, "Your Holiness, I am a bari- audience with the Pope, a very,

Oh, they told me you marriage work. No more, con-

were a tenor. What operas do corts and

and one very occupied and busy man.

you sing? asked the Pope nighters, no more night-clubs,

"Said Frankle,

"That's the Frankle said, 'I don't sing any Nancy, home and family.".

You go by operas. And His Holiness suld, Yet the clange to films and trouble with you

rules and standards, Somebody 'And where do you study?' aunny Southern California with

"Frankie replied, I told you something — you never

never their own swimming-pool in

studied. I just sang, Your Holl❤ the garden was not favourable, know If you don't try,

This is one of the most ness." The tensions increased, and,

courageous kids in the worl "Well, the Pope let out roar Frank said, "I seemed to be "da edge most

He gut on the phone and called of laughter a roar for him. of the time and

the American Ambassador's To an Ralian, if you are a great Nancy and I found ourselves getting into awhil argumentace. They called back within singer and you don't sing operns and you have never studied, this "There would be an audience is a big joke. with the Pope at the Vatican at five o'clock.

about the most trivial things.

"We just didn't seem able to get along as I had hoped."

Between pictures and record- ing sessions, Sinatra went on USO tours.

Unusual

oft

I shall lot. Phil (Sgt. Bilko}

the hour.

"So then we enlled back and asked about the proper atting

Der Bingo

In 1940, Frank and Nancy Sinatra separated for the first time. In less than A month, they recanelled, to the gratified- tion of their friends and the un- bridled joy their fans, who sent them telegrams like this:

"Please, plodse. You are the most normal family we know, Please, please, keep it that way." Frank was Hollywood's toweri sensation. Because of a punctured car-drum, he was never in the forces and he was in the publie eye when many Hollywood stare

were away.

•

It was Sinatra, "Night ' and-- · · Day." They say that one glamour "So the Fope then passed queen travelled thousands of

I had

milco just to spend a low hours

and everything. Well, the best down the line to me. thing we could wear would be some sets of rosary bends and 1 with him.

On June 30, 1948, the Sinatras our USO uniforms, military-like, immediately thought of Bing the ones they give you so that Croaby.. I knew how devout a had another baby, Christina, Catholle Bing is and I knew he while he was making “The if you are captured you are a

would like a memento of the Mimcle of the Bells.” captain. Slivers tell the story of an in-

Would a third child work the cident on one of these tours.

"Well, we finally got to the occasion. Vatican. Here's a couple of "So after His Holiners has miracle and keep the marriage "We had reached Romo," token-down actors and wo

asked me about myself, I said, together? : Slivers recalls, where there were ustiered in. The Cardinal Does Your Hollness know. at It might have; if Frank Siziatra was a large group of American in attendance Urkofed and vet Bing Crosby' and he did imme had not gone to a party nud met troops, and we found ourselves fed ver on protocol and what diately.

a beautiful young brunotto, -Aya with the day free.

exactly we were to do when we "I guesa "Going My Way' Gardner, who wrote the must "In the USO set-up, this is met the Pope.

- didn't hurt, you know.

- tumultuous, chapter, of him' 1160. "So I asked him 16. bless. the' "We walked in and the very unusual, so Franklo said,

TOMORROW! 'I wonder. I'm gonna got ar Pope he must have been told beads and then he gave me two am more sets and blessed those us about us. He was told, 1 sure, that he was going to meet well.

audience with the Pope."

"So. I, with my brilliant sense

of humour, sald, 'Give me

1

"Finally we loft and as we The stormlost chapter of all

a great American singer and walked down the steps of the

drag of that: What do your mean, a comodiası, me.

--marriage- to Ava