Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Hartley William Shawcross


Related Topics

In the News (Thu 12 Nov 09)

  
  Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hartley William Shawcross was born to John and Hilda Shawcross in Germany, whilst his father was teaching English at Giessen University.
Shawcross demonstrated to the court that the laws the defendants had broken had been expressed in international treaties and agreements pre-dating the war, and to which Germany was a party.
Shawcross' advocacy was instrumental in obtaining convictions against the remaining Nazi leadership on grounds which were perceived as fair and lawful.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hartley_Shawcross   (739 words)

  
 Hartley William Shawcross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (February 4, 1902 – July 10, 2003), was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.
He was made one of Britain's first life peers on February 14, 1959 as Baron Shawcross, of, Sussex, and sat in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher.
He had two sons, (the author and historian William Shawcross), Hume and a daughter Joanna by his second wife.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hartley_Shawcross   (696 words)

  
 Hartley William Shawcross -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Shawcross opening speech, which lasted two days, was able to undermine any belief that the Nuremberg Trials were a victor's (The quality of being just or fair) justice, an exacted (The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life) vengeance against defeated foes.
Shawcross demonstrated to the court that the laws the defendants had broken had been expressed in international treaties and agreements pre-dating the war, and to which (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany was a party.
Shawcross' advocacy was instrumental in obtaining convictions against the remaining (A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party) Nazi leadership on grounds which were perceived as fair and lawful.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hartley_william_shawcross.htm   (615 words)

  
 William Joyce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
William Joyce (April 24, 1906 – January 3, 1946), known as Lord Haw-Haw was a fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II.
William Joyce, on September 18 1939, and on numerous other days between 18 September 1939 and 29 May 1945 did aid and assist the enemies of the King by broadcasting to the King's subjects propaganda on behalf of the King's enemies.
William Joyce, on 26 September 1940, did aid and comfort the King's enemies by purporting to be naturalised as a German citizen.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/William_Joyce   (859 words)

  
 Observer | William the conqueror
Lord Hartley Shawcross came to be known as 'Sir Shortly Floorcross': after what had seemed to be a flourishing career as a socialist and potential Labour leader under Clement Attlee, he promptly crossed the divide of British politics to join the right-wing of the Conservative Party.
William Shawcross, 56, grew up only a few miles from the elite luxury hotel he now owns and manages in Cornwall with his third wife, the socialite heiress Olga Polizzi.
Shawcross this time delegated his response to none other than John le Carré, who said he had known the Murdoch biographer for many years, and accused Brown of printing 'one of the ugliest pieces of partisan journalism that I have ever witnessed'.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4711338-102273,00.html   (1399 words)

  
 [Deathwatch] Lord Hartley William Shawcross, Nuremberg prosecutor , 101
Hartley William Shawcross was involved in a number of high-profile cases throughout his career, prosecuting a major treason trial and an atomic spying case.
Shawcross then was appointed Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg, Germany, trials of Nazi war criminals, signing an indictment along with representatives of the United States, France and the Soviet Union.
Shawcross called the Nazi defendants "fl-hearted murderers, plunderers and conspirators of which the world has not known their equal." "There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience," he said in court.
slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg01062.html   (653 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hartley William Shawcross
The Right Honourable Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, PC, KC (February 4, 1902 – July 10, 2003), was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.
Hartley Shawcross, Attorney-General of England and Wales 1945-51 This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General or Attorney-General, is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hartley-William-Shawcross   (1821 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Lord Shawcross
LORD Shawcross was probably the most brilliant, flamboyant and famous lawyer of the 20th century; a deadly and clinical prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals and, as the post-war Labour Attorney General, the man who helped to send acid bath murderer John George Haigh to the gallows.
Hartley William Shawcross was born in 1902 and educated at Dulwich College, where he preached socialism in the debating society.
And during the so-called disarmament debates at Lake Success, Shawcross exposed Molotov’s "disarmament" as humbug and was ruthless in his denunciation of the warlike activities of the Soviet Union.
news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=753782003   (1187 words)

  
 William Shawcross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Son of Hartley Shawcross and writer, he "made his name attacking US policy in Cambodia" according to the Evening Standard two days ago.
WILLIAM SHAWCROSS, the writer and broadcaster, has been chosen by the Queen to write the official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.
Mr Shawcross, Oxford educated and a former Sunday Times foreign correspondent, is the son of Hartley (later Lord) Shawcross, the chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials.
clublet.com /c/c/why?page=WilliamShawcross   (477 words)

  
 Shawcross Family Crest
Shawcross is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain.
The surname Shawcross is a habitation surname which forms a broad category of surnames that were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
In the Shawcross coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/shawcross-family-crest.htm   (524 words)

  
 Shawcross web results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The story of Arthur Shawcross, known as the Genessee River serial killer, is a shocking case of criminal behavior and government incompetence leaves a...
A. Born in 1946, William Shawcross is an internationally renowned writer and...
Hartley Shawcross was born in Germany on 4th February, 1902.
google.istarthere.com /index.php?q=Shawcross   (229 words)

  
 Harold Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For much of this time, he was a research assistant to William Beveridge on unemployment and the trade cycle.
Queen Elizabeth II came to dine at 10 Downing Street to mark his resignation, an honour she has bestowed on only one other prime minister, Winston Churchill.
Some of those Wilson honoured were later revealed to have been corrupt, including who went to jail for fraud and Sir Eric Miller who committed suicide while under investigation.
www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Harold_Wilson   (2812 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Shawcross Lord Hartley William
Shawcross, Lord Hartley William (1902-2003), British jurist and Attorney-General, leader of the British prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after...
Bentinck, the younger son of a duke, entered the army at the age of 17.
Alexander, William, known as Lord Stirling (1726-1783), American soldier, born in New York.
au.encarta.msn.com /Shawcross_Lord_Hartley_William.html   (92 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Lord Shawcross
Lord Hartley William Shawcross of Friston, a chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials, died July 6.
Shawcross generated a reputation for meticulous prosecution when he tried William Joyce for high treason and John George Haigh for the murder of Olive Durand-Deacon.
Shawcross later became the Chancellor of Sussex University, and earned honorary degrees from nine universities in U.S. and the U.K. His autobiography, "Life Sentence," was published in 1995.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000114.html   (161 words)

  
 Royal Bank Currency Conversion
He was William Shawcross, the son of Hartley Shawcross, the former Labour minister and chief British prosecutor at Nuremberg, and he was looking for a smooth, accelerated route into journalism.
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the destruction or Cambodia (1979), in which he highlighted the secret US bombing of Cambodia, is a fierce indictment of both Richard Nixon and Kissinger, whom he blamed for the American invasion of peaceful, agrarian Cambodia, the removal of Prince Sihanouk and, later, the murderous excesses of the Khmer Rouge.
Shawcross is a polemicist; he seeks culprits and attributes blame.
www.sinoculture.biz /finance/royal_bank_currency_conversion.html   (738 words)

  
 Shawcross of Friston, Hartley William Shawcross, Baron --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Sir William's first wife, Anne Parr, was a sister of Catherine Parr, who married Henry VIII in 1543.
The wayward talent of English writer Hartley Coleridge, eldest son of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, found expression in skillful and sensitive sonnets.
William Maxwell Aitken was born in Maple, Ont., in 1879.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9396750   (837 words)

  
 Talk:Hartley William Shawcross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As written in the New York Times obituary column, it said that Shawcross was knighted in 1945, at the relatively young age of 43.
Shortly after this is when he was selected as the British delegate to the United Nations.
We now have a second article about this man at Hartley Shawcross.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Talk:Hartley_William_Shawcross   (229 words)

  
 Hartley William Shawcross - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hartley William Shawcross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hartley William Shawcross - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hartley William Shawcross.
Here you will find more informations about Hartley William Shawcross.
The orginal Hartley William Shawcross article can be editet
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Hartley-William-Shawcross.html   (699 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Nazi war crimes prosecutor dies
Shawcross also went before the Hague to state Great Britain's case against Albania after the mining of the British destroyers in the Corfu Channel.
Shawcross, who was born into a Rochdale mill-owning family, was known for dropping political bricks with regularity.
Sir Hartley's apparent comment on his party as "the masters now" became part of political history, and he was pilloried as an arrogant aristocrat.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/1218017.stm   (547 words)

  
 Hartley Shawcross
Shawcross took an early interest in politics and by the age of 16 he had joined the Labour Party and was ward secretary in Wandsworth.
Shawcross set a somber tone that emphasized the individual responsibility of the accused.
Shawcross was once seen as a potential choice for Labor prime minister.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWshawcross.htm   (1390 words)

  
 THE ADVERSARY SYSTEM: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
Hartley William Shawcross, The Functions and Responsibilities of an Advocate, 30 OKLA. B.A.J. Id.
Hartley William Shawcross, supra note 1, at 1100.
Hartley William Shawcross, supra note t, at 1100.
mywebpages.comcast.net /badixon1/adversary.htm   (2033 words)

  
 John J. Miller on William Shawcross on National Review Online
To the British Left, William Shawcross is a traitor.
The fact that comes from the pen of Shawcross — "Cambodia was not a mistake," he once wrote, "it was a crime" — makes it both good and interesting.
This is not to suggest that Shawcross is uncritical of the coalition effort in Iraq.
www.nationalreview.com /miller/miller200401290913.asp   (790 words)

  
 ► » Shawcross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hartley William Shawcross was involved in a number of high-profile cases
Shawcross left his job as attorney general in 1951 and stepped down as a
Shawcross also is survived by his third wife, Monique, and son Hume and
www.encano.com /Shawcross-3578736.html   (671 words)

  
 HARTLEY SHAWCROSS
Specialty Definition: Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross of Friston
Sir Hartley William Shawcross, Lord Shawcross (February 4, 1902 - July 10, 2003), was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.
He was made a life peer on February 14, 1959 as Baron Shawcross, of Friston, Sussex, and sat in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/HARTLEY+SHAWCROSS   (634 words)

  
 National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
Shawcross himself doesn't seem to care what the Left thinks of him.
Shawcross is one of those people who thinks that the world is a better place for a certain despot having no power in it.
A saner liberalism wouldn't be upset with William Shawcross — it would embrace him and his ideas.
www.nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/miller/miller200401290913.asp   (702 words)

  
 The Scotsman - UK - Nuremburg prosecutor Shawcross dies at 101
LORD Shawcross, a chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, died peacefully at his home yesterday.
The barrister, who was Attorney General in the post-war Labour government, served as MP for St Helens from 1945 to 1958.
Born on 4 February, 1902, Hartley William Shawcross studied at Dulwich College and took a short course at the London School of Economics.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=753922003   (354 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.