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  David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maxwell Fyfe's cross-examination of Herman Göring is one of the most noted cross examinations in history.
Maxwell Fyfe had controversially refused to grant a reprieve to Bentley despite the written petitions of 200 MP's and the fact that Bentley was mentally retarded having only a mental age of 11.
Maxwell Fyfe was on the traditionalist right of the party, particularly noted for his strong support for the retention of the death penalty.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (1900-1967) was an important British politician and jurist.
Born in Aberdeen, he became the youngest King's Counsel in 250 years in 1934 and was elected to the House of Commons in the Conservative interest in 1935.
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 David Maxwell-Fyfe, 1st Viscount Kilmuir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 The Accidental Legacy of a Homophobic Humanitarian
Maxwell Fyfe understood that a successful politician was often one who had made an early start.
Maxwell Fyfe’s biggest test came when he turned down clemency for the burglar Derek Bentley, whose accomplice, Christopher Craig, had shot dead a policeman.
Maxwell Fyfe’s declaration limiting the abuse of power has ended up becoming the hoop through which even the most minor legislation must leap.
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 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 14
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Yes, it is a document of the- I think, in April 1933, judging by the dates which I put to you a moment ago, and you said to the Tribunal in giving your evidence that it was mere chance that the.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: But of course, I think you have said, Witness, that whether he was acquitted or not, the authority of Van Fritsch in the German Army was in his own view destroyed by the fact that this charge had been brought against him.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: "With regard to the form and the moment for the commencement of further intensification of the war at sea, the decision of the supreme war command to begin the general intensification of the war with an offensive in the West is of decisive importance.
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 David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe (1900 - 1967) was created 1st Viscount Kilmuir in 1954 and 1st Earl of Kilmuir and Baron Fyfe of Dornoch in 1962.
Born in Aberdeen, he became the youngest King's Counsel in 250 years in 1934 and was elected to the House of Commons in 1935.
In 1954 he was created a Viscount and moved to the House of Lords as Lord Chancellor.
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 COURTTV.COM- TRIALS
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: You knew perfectly well, did you not, that as far as the Fuehrer was concerned, Danzig and the Corridor was not the real matter that was operating in his mind at all.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: But, My Lord, the rule is that if the defendant puts his character in issue, he is entitled to be crossexamined on his character and his general reputation, and of course it is permissible to call a witness.to speak as to his general reputation.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: He may prefer that Bodenschatz be brought back and it be pu$ to him, but I think I am entitled to put it to the defendant who called for the evidence as to his character and reputation.
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 Bertrand Russell, the Famous Years
Person(s) in Photograph: Bertrand Russell, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Mrs.
Seated, moving from Russell's left, are Conservative M.P. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Liberal politician and daughter of former British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, widow of the late American President, Mrs.
This is a photograph of Bertrand Russell sitting in a hospital bed in Trondheim, Norway after he was rescued from a flying boat crash, Oct. 8, 1948.
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 Goering Transcript 3/20/46
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: No, but he was commandant of the camp, and I suppose you had to review and confirm the proceedings of the Zentralluftwaffengericht which convicted him and sentenced him to a year's imprisonment for neglect of duty.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: This is my last question: I want to make it quite clear, Witness, that I am referring to those who had escaped, who had got away from the confines of the camp and were recaptured by the police.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Then I am right, am I not, that Soviet prisoners of war who escaped were to be, after their return to the camp, handed over to the Secret State Police.
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 David Maxwell Fyfe
David Maxwell Fyfe was born in Aberdeen in 1900.
Maxwell Fyfe worked as a lawyer and in 1934 became Britain's youngest KC since the 16th century.
In 1942 Winston Churchill appointed Maxwell Fyfe as Solicitor General and was deputy chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
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 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 13
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Your answer is that it is not covered by the Treaty, but by one of the matters in the Treaty; but your explanation was that you thought you were entitled to torpedo without warning any ship that might be mistaken for a warship.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: That is my whole suggestion to you, you know, Defendant, that you were acting on the military necessity stated in that memorandum of the Naval Command that the maximum damage to England could only be achieved with unrestricted use of arms without warning.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: So are we to take it that you did not think that would have any frightening or terrorizing effect on the getting of new crews, if the old crews were sunk under conditions where they would probably lose their lives.
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 ipedia.com: David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir was an important British politician and jurist.
Born in Aberdeen, he became the youngest King's Counsel in 250 years in 1934 and was elected to the Hous...
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 Janus: The Papers of the Earl of Kilmuir, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of the Earl of Kilmuir, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, KLMR
This collection level and series description were prepared by Natalie Adams of Churchill Archives Centre in June 2004, using information from the existing catalogue of the collection.
Fyfe, David Patrick Maxwell (1900-1967) 1st Earl of Kilmuir, statesman
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 The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 21 - Two Hundred and Fourth Day
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: The present example is that these men under Korn, who was on the staff of the Supreme SA Leadership, beat this Communist to death by using the bastinado on his feet.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: I am not forgetting your first words in evidence that you said that you could give an account of the SA from 1933 onwards dealing with all relevant parts-however, if that is your answer I will leave it.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-YYFE: It is the Supreme Court of the Party, the Supreme Court of the Party composed of Gauleiter.
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 Secretary of State for the Home Department - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe (October 27, 1951 - October 19 1954)
David Waddington (October 26, 1989- November 28, 1990)
David Blunkett (June 8, 2001 - December 15, 2004) (Resigned)
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 133. AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN GUYANA IN 1953
The representatives of the US Government, no doubt, pressured the British to remove the PPP Government from office.
On the 4th of October, Lyttelton, British Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, and Senior Legal Assistant to the Commonwealth Relations Office, Sir Sydney Abrahams, journeyed to Balmoral Castle in Scotland to confer with Queen Elizabeth.
It was on their return to London that the Order-in-Council on the suspension of the constitution bearing the Queen's signature was announced.
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 Overview of David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He became a Member of Parliament (1935), and served as Home Secretary (1951) and Lord Chancellor (1954).
He was knighted in 1942 and raised to a peerage in 1954, and created Baron Fyfe of Dornoch in 1962.
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