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TUESDAY PROFILE

HE IS

FROM the lonely splendeur of his chair, high

above the dark oak and Gothic gloom of the Law Courts, he surveys a realm of awesome breadth

The public searchlight spares him nothing. Stabbing the dusty dinmess, it illuminates relent- lessly each smallest word, gesture and judicial quip of Lord Parker of Waddington, Lord Chief Justice of England.

To the citizens who sit below, successor in the robast Goddard between the cleats grey walls vela, loving the rich drama of

und

amuldering

enlf-bound the courts and every sensation- figure n al moment of his occasional day out at the Old Balley.

volurnes, his a majesticolly remate and imper- sonal as dustlee with her seules,

He Is The Law.

His is the supervision of the whole artef-strewn battlecki of the Common Law. 1 are the ultimate pretilens of

death, prism or probation, an presiding Judge over the Chairt of Criminal Appeal.

that

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His is the example, whefiar Lough or compassionate, conditions the proceedings every city police court and rural petty session. Ile the altitude ihal terupers the outfirsk jorgen met irvangistrates, approach of constables and pro- bition affects, the trods murderes and lamplesa ngelist

An Chief Coroner of England, Je may hold an best ant- where. As a member of the Houre of Lard, he commands respectful sik

when tre speaks of gad matters. As born Chief Justlen, he may remain in his lonely chair until he decides to ko.

Old giant

For Lord Goddard, his pers decessor, the panoply and purpin of this high stile, were made to

measure.

No State judge ever bedered the perfinous of this bertie- browed old klant who chany ploned aeking and Rogging shamelessty; lazed good wine, Dickens, dramatic entrances and usde-hall wegs over the pent, What of Hubert Lister Parker, Th asmines This fearsome weight of integrity

£10,000 a year?

For his

One thing was certain from the moment he grasped the low's first glittering prize September, 1958. Here was no

TALKING

· POINTS

In

Courage Is fear when it has said its prayers.

-KARLE BAKEN.

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and eyes

The new man Is enim medium-tall. His brown are merry still at 59, and two sid ways White quis sprout from his baki patu.

Here, it seemed, was all- floted country coroner of a Lord Chief Justice: a man of self-effacing splendid patience, and a little plodding in his black darkel and wing collar.

Influence

Here WON #

3 with л eliarming American wife who Jove nothing intter than quiet weekend among his books and antiqued at his country Cottage: gardening

bird- watching, Thing or studying the Penantios of cinery catfie,

To some degree. England had already. the measure of hit

Bank Rate Presiding over the Inquiry. Lord Parker had exert- and an impressively steadying Influence over the buzzing City

hive.

There had been pulid teas- strance in his precise, persistent gentiuning, his intolerance of bullying, his soft, half-apologetic. extraction of the truth.

By

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1960.

THE

Lord Parker, Chief Justice of England.

Simon Kavanaugh

Before many months, the first called 'intellectual coction of the who are against pronotincements of the new Lord prapuintion

and corporal punish- Chief Justice were strengthening capital ment." the general impression.

• QUOTE the other day: "The balance of advantage now lies in favour of the reintroduc- tion of corporal punishment in a limited form."

He spoke up for the underpaid poller. It was more of them

than that were needed rather heavler sentences, he said.

When the Court of Criminal Appeal slashed the sentence on a man with 17 previous couvie- tions from ten years preventive detention to three years' proba- tion it seemed that new routerence at Margate. They regine had indeed begun.

This last om took a buffet- ing among the nation's proba- 1km officers. hearing hin

trs

did not agree. When they told him so, he merely replied with

Crusades da Undness that it would

be bad word if we were all agreed."

But bird-watching is no mêl- sure of the strength or mercy of

Because There is more to the new man a Lord Chief Justice. Lord Parker had followed a man What we learn with plen-dedicated in his crusade against patient calm, England is begin-

thuggery, it did not follow that sure, we never forget,

he liked it any better.

ALFRED MERCTER.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

-DRYDEN.

*

Any juror who had ever served under Lord Parker in a der trial could have Eutel England that. Soon he Was making it clear hinselt.

·

QUOTE by Lard Parker

1

Insist on yourself. Never in May last year: "It would be

come intolerable if whenever Imitate.

child complained of ill treatment at school o parent was at 1lberty the logo there and set about headmaster.

-EMERSON.

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deetis.

-HENRY CLAY.

at the Law Courts than his

ing to find. There are other

well as dramatic entrantes.

techniques that work at least as

Lonely

to his

LAW

Like him, his father was a greal judge, a member of the House of Lards, a life peer and and a classical scholar.

Selences. It was to follow his father to Lincoln's Inn.

In 1924, a year of happy oniem,, Hubert Parker was called 10 the bar and married the vivacious girl from Kentucky the had met nt Cambridge. Within ten years, his hard work As a young barrister had taken

n to the Admiralty.

And 11 years after that, like

his father 40 years before, he became Junior Counsel to the Treasury. There, Immersing him- self in commercial eases, he jald foundations that may yet pay rleh dividends in mutual respect between the

the City andi Judiciary.

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The late Lord Parker moved to a Judge's sent in the Chancery Division. But his van, is gift for high endeavouır al- ready proved, became in 1950 n judge in the King's Bench Division: then, four years later, in the Court of Appeal.

Until he became a judge, Lord Parker had no experience of criminal work. Once, when he that^tyo'murder trinis

ham on an

Assize calendar, he was appalled.

learned

nwaited

Jargon

But if he knows little of the jargon of thieves and the men who entch them. he is well versed in the ways of human frailly. is briefs were dullur, but they contained their share of that,

And If first-hand study of crooks and cosh-boys was omitted from his legal educa- tion, first-hand stody of bureau- crats was not. The Lord Chief Justice knows all about them, and when they begin to be dangerous.

When the Lord Chief Justice's court was fitted out fast year with modern desks and foam rubber cushions fus counsel, Lord Parker marked the occa- sion by putting oside at boatybe old wig of his father's that he had always worn.

Donning the new one, he in- And when young Hubert augurated a new chapter of Parker went on from Rugby to English Justige that he will cer- Trinity, Cambridge, and to a tainly make his own. Double First

1 Natural He has so much time.

H.

"noked into the conference Chamber"

R

H.

Cummings

"After all, honourable members will agree I'm properly dressed for the Disarmament Conference.....

Lundun Express Service

IMAGINE MAKING A WEDDING

RING A SECRET IN 1960!

DOUBLE income is as much a part of modern marriage as a double bed-and there are 6,000,000 working wives in Britain to prove it. So why should a woman who's legally married have to hide the fact from her employer?

By

JILL BUTTERFIELD

searching

the frozen veg.

for seductive riveries, (She'll be buying and they are much easier to come by.

But that's what happened in Manchester. For in that city's busy King Street there exists a after firm which seemingly would run the country like a medieval harem, firm which holds views on | modern life, love, and office efficiency as out of date

as the horseless carriage.

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And Perry Patrier, director of the cosmelle Arm Jane Scyrnour,

added:

employ about 200 married women and they're

}} extremely good morizens.

have They

good reasons for working, maybe be- cause they are saving to get things for the home, and it they have children they work harder Rael Brook, Harry famous shirt firm, who employs than ever because they want to more than 1.000 women workers, buy things for the children and told me: "I had to choose heln in their education." between having u married or a

Df the

She's not dashing off early single secretary, I'd choose the All bit firms. All sound every evenler to change in time married one every time. She reasons. for a date. (A husband will has experience of looking after

patiently then the men."

Certainly he brings impressive professional equipment lonely chair. Certainly there I an immense knowledge of the

The Vulcan Biler Insurance firm for 10 years before she wait more Company has just dismissed a law behind those gentle eyes; a

revealed her guilty secret--that average boy friend.) flair for clarity to pit against the super effefeilt miss just because for the last three years of them most complex of legal tangles.

14 found out she was a Mrs. she'd dared to live in holy It is

To no accident.

Corrider the case of the girl matrimony. QUOTE Jast August: "I tanishing degree, Lord Parkceri marle into the Secret Silent

35-year-old am in favour of retaining capital is the son of his pinient father. Wife-the

office worker who had been with the punishment. It is only the so-, the late Lord Parker.

COMMONWEALTH CLUB

President: NKRUMAH

Chairman:...NEHRU

Commiffee... AYUB KHAN

ABOUL RAZUK SELİANAYAUT

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"BOY! CHUCK THAT FELLOW OUT!”.

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World Copyright by arrangeminit with the bfanchester Guardian

not

Michael Colston, sales director And what's more she's

of

domestic appllance firm. for the old office ide such ame

"Although We have wolves. (Walch the bees around dozens of first class single And imagine the life of Sally the honeypot take flight when iris, the married ones tend to

outs on her wedding Cole who, because she needed honey

be more steady." her job desperately ("Like any ring.) It follows. she's much

married couple we needed the more efficient.

money.

We had nothing when we got married," she said)

had

to hold her tongue.

Lost thrills

She had to through

hold her tongue

Reliable

But my own argument is o much simpler thing.

I wouldn't maintain that the working wife is the best worker (there must be times when the the kids have measles and baller bursis).

I wouldn't argue that the working wife has the best life (it's not much fun when you've six coming to dinner and the

The wife is working for two reasons, Either, likes her ronson is the Charis Forte. head of one of ons wants to work late).

she has to keep

both. Her job will mean more to her and she'll be willing to But more into it.

But nol if the first ecstatic her private life secret. Merciful

The war engagement days, through the ly very few of us do. first weeks of her honeymoon killed the marriage ban. (spent at home — "We Fot married on the Saturday. I was back al work on the Monday." through the first years marriage when the gll was still thick on the gingerbrend.

There could be no gossip with the girls about the wedding dram. There could be no office present-collected for in secret, presented with glaries

and a glass of champagne.

There could be no wedding cako passed ground with photo- phraphs and the morning tea. Her marriage became a hole- and-corner buginen.

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Efficiency

Bonuse to keep her job she

all the inconvenience of

iving in sin with none of the attendant forbidden-fruit sweet-

Britain's largest catering establishments, told me: “From our experience we have found that married women DIC ospecially good in our kind of they have a business because good grasp of household dulles, are older, and more reliable.

But I do believe that any woman in the land hus the right live her own life and that Includes having both a men and a job.

--(London Express Service).

Antarctic man

is cleared

-120

+

years

later

Sydney.

TWO Australians have cleared up a 120-year-old geographical contro. verby, and-made the first accurate map of 1,500 miles of Antarctica's coastline.

Their mag

covers the

Bouti

Although the trial was never CAS. Because he had to hide polar continental const directly concluded, he was publicly dis

zouth of Eastern Australia. honoured..

her wedding ring every morning (she put it in her handbag on the bus).

Now the Australians, P. G. It was dent mapped 120 years Law, director of the Antaretle ago by an Ameriena explorer, division of the External Affairs Charles Wilkes.

of

"I make the positions of dislam objects greaĤly distortest. " pule the sun and stars out of position when sighted with a sexlant, and will give a mapper Department in Canberra, and errors of up to a degree and a

Lambart, slitester 1. P.

half in longitude and latitudo.”

The Australians overcame the notional mapping, say:

'Errors'

problem by taking four differ BITS sextant sightings of the star to "Wilkos WOS substantially balance the refraction - errore correct, but he put Antarelles four ways.

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But there's another reason why I deplore the attitudo ot

Other polar explorers welity tise Vulcan Boller Insurance Company and that one's ne used Wilken's mape sald they pretical na you liko.

were hopelessly inaccurate ¿diny had walled their shija sate- For a married woman in notly over areas which he claimed only as efficien uy the single were part of the land mast girl, she is frequently moro, 80, The American

Why? Sho's fulfilled her charged with tyranny and fraud malt aim. She's got her man. when he persistently calmed his Slid's not back into thote auch 'survey had been correct.

imes tuo far north gcause The area they surveyed ha refractions or light rave been shown on maps, evor since which bend greatly in the polar infamous Wilkes's drin) ime ɔn · air, when super fry to take doited line. u cextent alghiting.

London Express, Bruton,