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THE 'CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY," "FEBRUARY 6, *1960.
Crime Against The State
BY EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
THE Van Dyck portraits of him-unlined face, youthful demeanour, jet black glossy hair-have largely ceased to correspond with the reality. The man now led by custodian guards to the great Hall at Westminster is deeply furrowed, care-laden, prematurely grey.
One element, however, does survive from those happier Van Dyck days that distinctive arrogance, that unsuppressible pride. No prisoner ever gazed upon his judges with more open disfavour and disdain.
And Πο juxiges ever gazed upon prisoner with more open prejudice. There are more than 60
is
of them от their scarlet benches, and overy fuce grim and set relentlessly os the President formally
ad-
dresses the
The King's
-losing
lonely figure waiting at the Bar.
"Charles Stuart, King of Eng land," ho solemnly intones, "The Commons of England, assembled
unbridled antagonism to King.
crime
the war
B
well," retoris
the his voice in imperious demand. "Show by what lawful authority At Bradshawe's order the 1 am here; otherwise 1 will not liberlles of my charge against Charles 1 is read betray the
but of people." In Parliament, being sensible of a charge of treason,
"You will do and calunities that treason curiously inverted the evils have been brought upon this Traitors are commonly charged Bradshawe, raising his nation and of the innocent blood with levying war against their also, "to consider whether this that has been shed in it, which king. is fixed upon you as the princi- pal author
Phoney
volez
No. 4: CHARLES I
be all the answer that you offer.“ "I ask for your lawful authority," Charles stubbornly
"Satisfy God and me a captive branded in default and repeats, and the world in that, and you in contempt. shall receive my answer."
Before they again met their
Here the King is charged with have resolved to levying war against his subjects, 21 plan to make Inquisition for this blood." in furtherance of
Bequire despotic power. The details simply comprise a list of the battles he has fought; Edge- The crowds in the galleries dauntless monarch face to face, hill, Marston Moor, Naseby, have so far maintained silence, the Commissioners tried to
there are scattered procure a bit of cover. But
They Preston.
rumbies of approval and even held, in private, an examination mahible cries of "God save Your of sundry witnesses. And what Majesty!"
exactly-if anything-did these witnesses prove? That Charles hati been on the losing side in the Civil War.
Whe President pauses, as though to give that
greater emphnals.
lost word "And accord-
ing to the debt they owe to God, Justice, the kingdom and them Belves they have
Dignity
Charles resolved to As they are recited,
scornfully. Bradshawe bring you to trial and judgment, laughs and have therefore consilluted says nothing, but purses his lips this high court of justice where tightly, and hope them pursed
until the reading ends. you are to hear your charge."
It is an extravagant clalm Then, on an unmistakably that the President makes for his threatening note, he speaks. tribunal. "This high court of "Str, the court expects your by the answer." Justlee" "Constituted Commons of England"-poppy- Charles, who has been seated, stands to enhance his own dignity, not out of deference to the court.
cock.
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Charles calmly folds his arms, There is a hasty conference on
are the pearlet benches, which exhibiting signs of considerable disarray.
Finally Bradshawo announces the conference's decision.
"The court," he says, #will the day" after adjourn until tomorrow. The guarda are ac- cordingly bidden to withdraw prisoner."
Not ordinary
"The prisoner echoes Charles majestically. "The King,"
The day after tomorrow-and
めで
the
NO PRISONER. EVER GAZED. UPON HIS JUDGES WITH MORE OPEN DISFAVOUR AND DISDAIN.
London Exptere Service.
It breaks Charles's composure. The Commissioners then felt "1 may speak after the sen- able to agree upon the verdict tence," he insists, as the soldiers "By your they had agreed on before close around him. trial Contenced.
favour, air-hold-the sentence, sir sir, I do”.
"Guards," says the implacable Bradshawe.
your Withdrow prisoner." Charles calis out bitterly as they
"I am not suffered to speak," hustle him away. "Expect what justice others will have."
Bitter
This court doth adjudge that the said Chories Stuart, 74 ย tyrant, traitor, murderer, and publie enemy to the good people of this nation shall be put to death-Bradshawe licks his lips Beheaded
"by the severing of his bood from his body."
Charles shows no trace of fear
#lr?"
short,
His shrift was
Three to days after that Inst encounter his massed opponents,
This is no mare a judicial pro- ceeding than any of the military
"I am your lawful king," be engagementsEdgehill, Marston Moor, Naseby, Preston during says, in words of cold command. the recently concluded Civil "Think well upon it before you War. It is merely a last, und go from one sin to a greater, 1 phoney, battle, rigged by the know no authority you have."
The murmuring on the scarlet wgainst victorious in that war
benches is louder than before. the day after that fellows a or dread, but speaks direct the vanquished.
Less than Gfly members were Bradshawe fidgets angrily.
similar, though more protracted, Bradshawe in even, level tones, with
"Confess come here, Sir, by coUTTIC. Commons that
deny." "Will you hear me a word, Charles was publicly behooded present in the pussed un Act by a majority of authority of the Commons, ect relicrates Bradshawe.
soon 19 1 "Sir," ps Bradshawe, "you alx-providing for the trial of ing on behalf of the people of "I will answer as the King, and this mere rump, England, by which people you know by wlut authority you sit, are not to be heard after the
reiterates Charles. "Sir, 'tis not sentence." under protection from the Army, are elected king."
Charles seizes on this ill-con- for prisoners to require." "No, sir?" says Charles, with appointed these so-called "Com-
"Sir, Lom an air of incredulity. missioners" who now, mattering sidered phrase as might have Bradshawe naserts.
ordinary prisoner," calm done the professional counsel not
"No, sir. hostility and vengeance,
Guards, withdraw to sit as impartial arbiters, who by the custom of the time asserts Charlos. And once again your prisoner."
the guards are told to take away This ultimate rebu!! dots Appearance, at least might is not allowed him.
"I do tell you, Sir, England their captive--this time, though, what the sentence could not do. have been maintained if an eminent judge had consented to was never yet un elective king- preside, None, however, did, dom; was an hereditary and this most responsible of kingdom Ir near this thousand tasks has been assigned to an in years." significant lawyer named John Enjoying Bradshawe's tempor- Bradshawe, whose sole qualifien- ary check and the sharp frowns tion for fuifling it rests in his of his colleagues, Charles raibes
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on a charge to which he had never pleaded, either yen or nay. Whether morally he deserved that fate historians must decide, But the legal process by which The reached. It calls for a different judgment; and that judgment,, whenever invoked, is likely to consider the royal prisoner less guilty than the court.
LATIN LOVERS-2
A verdict on their
WHEN in Rome you don't have to
search for romance; you have
to avoid it. Down every street, in every cafe, round every corner there's some soft-eyed, sweet-talking son of Italy ready to take your arm, give you a lift, or if these blandish- ments fail-follow you to your hotel in the hope of learning your room number.
,
charm
By Patricia Lewis
For every girl who resents of the nobility were sentenced this there must be 100 who find to imprisonment for buying
it handy,
dope on the premises.
But Rome itself goes back to And this frank,
somehow many years that memories are Inoffensive adimiration of the ether short
or unperturbed. The night I was taken to The
female form divine (coupled with the undisguised intention
to reduce it) is no prerogative 84 It was bursting with titles.
of the roadside Romeos, Even
come princes are known to
share this passion,
Popular
"It's a rumour that's been in the family for the last 2,000 years" was the crushing reply.
Sirice the break-up of his Ilves like a marriage Vittorio recluse on his country estate, Etruscan ort, and studying
is hardly ever seen. out of blue Jeans
All in all, I find the legendary lure of these titled gentlemen completely resistible.
My own simple guide for the title-seeking - tourist 10 this: Prince "Dado" Buspeli was Concentrate on the small try. It must be very dimeult for at the best table with his cur- The nicest prince 1 found In even the
Hie m most strong-willed rent girl-friend, a Bardot-type Rome was just 20,
was Renalo. He had charming woman to resist a charmer who called Michello Tessler, on one
and his ex-girl-friend, monners, danced divinely, turns out to have a litic, sido palazzo, and the know-how to actress Anna Maria Guarniers, bought me a glass of wine, and Launch you
hedonic on the other.
"Dado" is probably the last suggested we got married, ways of the city's high society. of the wild, wealthy wolves of my brand of cigarettes,
I discovered later he liked
into the
Roman ritual
afternoon? Perhaps
ftome, and seems popular men and women allke.
with
faintly
Life, you see, follows a set A fascinating--but rituel. A drive out to Angelino's saturninb-looking man, Princo stable; the golf club; Gr the Dado became nows when he became a close friend of British bench in the morning.
The
actress Mara Lane (and, later gamble over some rubbers of of her sister Jackie) and also- bridge Seach (the Chess Club).
at the Circolo degli when his name was associated with drug-taking. The story is Bill quoted of when the frontler The choicest place for dinner police found him enrrying 41⁄21⁄21b. paradoxically, English: of opium but let him go after George's-a dignified establish he had proved that it was Ril ment presided over by a snull for his own use. taking, brocade waistcoated, Invishly moustached
Snubbed
character named Vernon Jarrett, who has such exolle foreign fire as Like Mara Lane, Ansilier Eng- kippers flown from fitilain.· Ushi actrees, 'Dawn ́Addams. föll
Alternatively, there is the in love with a Roman 'prinen........ theatre at 9.30 or: the clocma Vittorio Mamimo, But unliku at 10.80 p.m., which bringe one Miss Lore she married hers-no out in time for a night-cap at doubt with eventual regrets. Pipistrello or the club - most Prince Massimo's family favoured by the aristocracy: one of the oldent in Italy. There's The 84. This notorious club how a stoly that Napoleon once-nak- been closed down' several times ed a Massimo 12 it were true by the police, more sensational, that file ancestors fought Hon
three yours ago when several nibal,
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„THE SIX RICHEST MEN IN BRITAIN,
The tycoon who is so frugal
by BERNARD HARRIS
HAVE you ever dreamed of winning £250,000 on a football pool or cash sweep? If so, try to imagine what it would be like if you were to wla that sum, not just for a single week, but every week for three years.
At the end of it all you would have accumulated a fortune roughly equal to that controlled today by 49-year-old Weetman John Churchill Pearson, third Viscount Cowdray.
But if you were to meet this slucky, rotiring figure you would hardly think that here was a | man who was master of about
£40,000,000.
By the aturxiards of mony rich men he lives simply, al- most_frugally. He is a cautious sponder,
When he needed treatment |for a cough he went, not into nursing home, but into State-mibsidised senatorium neur his 13,000-acre Cowdray Paric catoto,
But there cannot be much real doubt who controla this miniature company and the millions that go with it. For the articles of association give special powers to "the person entitled to the Viscounty of Cowdray."
Mammoth..
The trust's biggest single possession is ownership of S. Pearson and Son, Lid. This was once the family's little con- tracting business in Yorkshire. Now it is a mammoth invest- ment compans which puts o Lord Cowdray did not him- value of £39,000,000 on its salf create the immense wealth assets,
The founder
which today he handles with Among the things it owna la such care,
The founder of the the controlling Interest family millions was his grand- Lazards, one of the City's lead- father, a blut, Yorkshire genius ing merchant banks. It also
who joined a small contracting has important newspaper hold- business and bullt it into the lngs and widely-distributed in- most famous firm of civil en- vestments in British Industry, gineers in the world.
Abroad It owns oil wells in He also founded the Mexican the U.S. and Canada, the Eaglo
Company, which, second largest ranch in North after the First World War, ho America, electrielty supply sold-along with its tanker feet undertakings in Greece, and a -10 the Royal Dulch-Shell variety of Empire projects,
That mixed group at a huge profit.
bag--all con- When he died in 1927 almost trolled by the family trust-can everything ha owned was pass- senteely be worth less than ed over to a tiny £1,000 cum- £40,000,000. pany called the Cowdray Trust. And today it is that company which holds the secrets of the Cowdray millions.
If you look at ita fila in Bush House you will-sce that the
Lord Cowdray has taken Food care of his inheritance. He has shown that even in these days of over-high taxation it is not merely possible to live on In- herlied wealth but, to incTERES
present Lord Cowdray holds it substantially.. anly two of its 1,000 £1 shares.
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