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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 12, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday August 12, 1963 vital parts have been removed from Ward Case Jigsaw Puzzle by f. S. Manor free press foreign editor to a newspaper Man nothing is As stale As yesterday s news. One is therefore reluctant to resurrect at this stage the strange Case of or. Stephen Ward. Yet the Case is like an iceberg the visible surface has melted and the Ripples around it Are subsiding but underneath there still remains a menacing. Mountain that should be explored in depth explored not Only As a sociological phenomenon but also As a commentary upon contemporary Justice in a country which has proudly elevated the term of British Justice to a Pinnacle of civic virtue. When the Ward Case broke with the resignation of War Secretary John Profumo the press was inundated with re mors of moral corruption in High places. When the Case ended two months later with or. Ward s death nothing remained of the rumours we were left with the official ver dict that or. Ward was a convicted commercial Brothel keeper. To a student of pub lie affairs All this sounds some what unreal. Here is a Jigsaw Puzzle from which the vital pieces have been carefully re moved. Key piece the key piece in this Puzzle is less Christine Keeler who got most publicity and most Money than the saucy one time miss Austin Marilyn Mandy Rice Davies. Mandy s role began last fall when she was caught driving her Jaguar without a driving licence. Rather than face prosecution Mandy went to the United states and police considered the offence so trifling that they dropped the Case. Mandy returned to London and other problems claimed her at Tention. Then came or. Profumo s lying statement to the House of commons of March 21, when he denied having had any improper relations with miss almost immediately afterwards the formidable forces at the disposal of the state were marshalled with the of bringing about or. Ward s undoing. Mandy was the chosen tool of or. Ward s downfall. She was then getting ready to Fly to Spain to persuade a Spanish Nobleman to marry her was always suggesting marriage to All her male a said or. Ward in the witness Unbe known to her the old traffic offence was resuscitated and Mandy was arrested at the air port As she was about to Board her aircraft for Spain. Very fishy it was a weekend and Mandy spent saturday and sunday in jail to appear before a magistrate on a monday at a time when her name or that of or. Ward for that matter hardly meant a thing to the British Public. The times of London How Ever reported the Case in full and it was obvious at first glance that there was some thing very fishy about it. 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Despite the Flimsy charge police were Adamant that miss Rice Davies should be remanded in custody. A police officer told the Magis trate that another serious charge was pending against miss Rice Davies and that police had another warrant for her arrest from another court. If she should be freed on bail she would be immediately re arrested on the second War rant. The magistrate either persuaded by police argument As would appear More Likely compliant with police require ments set bail for an offence that later resulted in a Fine at the outrageous figure of Mandy could not produce the Money and was carted away to jail where police kept her for a week. At the end of the week she was fined As mentioned and no thing More was heard either of the other serious charge or of a warrant from another court. The inference is that either police made a Deal with Mandy while she was in their custody or else the police officer lied to the magistrate. In either Case Here was a Clear in stance of extorted evidence. Thought i had to self so i ratted on commented Mandy at end of the trial budget plan a week before the Iward. Case. Was to come up nary hearing Mandy. Was plan Ning another flight to Spain to see another prospective Hus band this time a. German. Police arrested her again at the Airport forbade her to speak to reporters and took her to police Headquarters where she was held until 2 . This time the excuse was a charge of theft Mandy had bought a television set on plan and was behind with her instalments. Eventually bail was set at by police not by a magistrate and Mandy having become affluent in the meantime through the Sale or her memoirs was allowed to go Home. She was ordered to appear at a police station on the morning of the preliminary hearings against or. Ward and after she had Given evidence the theft charge was conveniently dropped. When at the preliminary hearing the defence objected to these goings on the Magis trate helpfully suggested to the Mandy Rice Davies ratted on Stephen police inspector that it might Well have taken him a week to decide whether there was a substance for a theft charge. At or. Ward s trial when the same objection was raised by defence Justice sir Archibald Marshall made another helpful suggestion if you had cer Tain he asked the police inspector would you not use them to prevent a witness from leaving the to which the relieved police officer happily answered of put up Job it was As fatuous for the magistrate to pretend that a senior police officer would quire a week to establish that non payment of instalments was. A civil rather than a Cri Minal offence As it was for or. Justice Marshall to suggest that one needs a threat of criminal prosecution to keep a witness available. Here was a second instance of extortion or a put up As Mandy described it in the witness Box at the trial. Nobody challenged her remark no cry of outrage came from either counsel or judge the damning accusation was left hanging in the air and the Case proceeded As if nothing had happened. And on evidence obtained in this fashion or. Ward was convicted. What miss Keeler said after 24.interrogatipns.at police head quarters must amount to equal doubtful testimony her evidence at the trial was often inaudible it wholly omitted what she had told Fleet Street and sin a strangely she seemed intent on proving to the court that she was a common harlot. Even stranger was the Testi Mony of one James Ethan not otherwise identified. The times described him As a Middle aged Man who gave his name As James this witness testified that he visited miss Keeler regularly in or. Ward s apartment and paid Cash on delivery for services rendered. Who was this Man who came Forward with Sulci a damaging statement to him self what pressures or inducements made him testify the defence which was Given Only four weeks to prepare ail answer to a Case which had been built up Over a period of at least four months was never Able to find out. Sad commentary the last two witnesses who were to Complete the strange Case of the prosecution in re Gina is. Stephen Ward were two professional prostitutes. Or. Justice Marshall quoted poetry one Margaret Ricardo rect Richardson retracted before the court her evidence Given on oath at the preliminary hear ing. This required considerable courage because miss Ricardo clearly exposed herself to a charge of perjury. She accused the police of sub orning her to give false evidence by using threats against her baby and her relatives and alien the judge asked her Why she did not complain she retorted in anguish to whom was i to complain where was i to where indeed it is a sad commentary that a Bri Tish subject even if a prostitute should need Protection against the police. The evidence of Vicky bar rett was the most enigmatic of All it was described by Tho defence As misleading inadmissible prejudicial and sur surprises there were galore. Out of tune miss Barrett testified that she attended regularly at or. Ward s apartment to Render professional services including whipping of elderly clients to men waiting in or. Ward s bedroom. This was evidence that was to Clinch the prosecution s assertion that or. Ward was a common commercial Brothel keeper. This was not Only out of tune with the entire picture of or. Ward s life dissolute though it May have but it was offensive to common sense. Surely it would not make sense for. Or. Ward to usher a prospective customer into the bedroom and then Rush out to Oxford Street to see whom he could find. Yet such was miss Barrett s testimony. Moreover where were those canes and whips Why were they not produced in evidence after All the police went meticulously Over or. Ward s apartments and these Are not objects that would have easily escaped police attention. Miss Barrett has since admitted that she lied in court then mindful of consequences quickly retracted her retraction. Wide net strangely enough her Evi Dence greatly appealed to or. Justice Marshall who in his summing up More or less suggested that the jury should accept miss Barrett s version of events. The jury much to its credit did not buy. However it would have taken a much More courageous jury to go completely against Lodge urgently needed in Saigon by de Meagher Washington special to is events in South Viet Nam the past few Days Are ominous for the Ngo Dinh diem government and cry for the arrival of ambassador designate Henry Cabot Lodge in Saigon As soon As possible. Nobody can say whether Lodge will be Able to persuade president diem to follow a More conciliatory course toward the buddhists and thus turn aside their very real threat to in spire an overturn of the government. But or. Lodge s presence could not help but have some beneficial effect on the Situa Tion which presently seems to be deteriorating rapidly. That or. A fudge did not take up his Post weeks ago is a cause for regret among Many observers. To them it probably was a mistake to return ambassador Frederick g. Nolting to the South Viet namese Capi Tal for a lame Duck stint Pend ing or. Lodge s arrival. With the recent death of the second Monk to set him self on fire for the Buddhist cause the Campaign of the Bud dist leaders has regained momentum. Grim Prospect according to wire services reports the Monk committed suicide without knowledge of the Buddhist leadership in Sai gon this is grimly significant particularly when bracketed with a Buddhist spokesman s reported admission that or Ders have gone but to Allda mme time Comfort with a Low cosi life insured loan is Godas in the country to carry on their programs of hunger strikes Street demonstrations and a nationwide wave of human sacrifices could be expected to generate the kind of support needed to bring Down the diem government. The result would be a Politi Cal ruins in which the communist Viet Cong could probably Sayage enough pieces for ultimate Victory. Coming at a time when de Feal of the Viet Cong Iff Well advanced such an ending to the Long guerrilla War in which the United states has sacrificed Many of her soldiers hundreds of millions. Of her dollars her prestige As the non communist world s main guardian against communist aggression is unthinkable. Yet the Way things Are going right now it could happen that Way. V the Buddhist leaders Are obviously determined to press on with their Campaign until the diem government gives in to their demands or quite simply caves in. _ for Many weeks now in Sai gon a qualifying phrase is commonly added to speculative statements As to what or Lodge will do about the Preca rious situation when he arrives. The qualifying phrase is if he arrives in time that is to Deal with the diem govern lot Angeles times or. Justice Marshall s directions. The Street offences act As the House of lord s judiciary committee now casts such a wide net that any sexual aberration can be twisted into a criminal offence. The Learned judge who quoted poetry at the jury men one of whom was almost illiterate and who baffled Mandy a one time Birmingham factory girl by asking her what was the quid pro quo seems failed to comprehend the Dif Ference Between the unrealistic picture of Ward As the professional Pimp and painted by the and the much More picture of Ward As an artist living in a Bohemian House hold where neither sex nor Money were of much Conse Quence. Have a certain tolerance of which your lord ship May not said or. Ward witness Box when admitting that Mandy s boy-friend1 used to visit her in his Flat shameless pressure indeed or. Justice Marshall did not approve and or. Ward was found guilty. An outraged Public opinion demanded a Scapegoat and somebody in position of Power seems to have wished to see the Case disposed of and buried As quickly As possible. The haste in proceeding with the Case despite defence objections that it was not ready was unseemly to say the least. In the end the tease was buried deeper than was expected but Many questions have remained to haunt those in Power there is the Issue of a shameless pressure of witnesses exerted by the police and one is left to wonder whether this pressure was not caused by an equivalent pres sure upon the police from was there an urgent demand upon the police to produce witnesses who would hush up a sordid Case of political immorality and turn it into a More sordid but also innocuous Case of simple pimping for there is also the still unexplained behaviour of the criminal court of Appeal in London Over the Gordon Case. But above All there is the key question of the Ward can British Justice be manipulated until this question has been or. Ward s ghost cannot be Laid. Behind Oil stumbling blocks 5 -5 i Adenauer Mil try to exact i Price on pact ratification i 1 by Walter l1ppmann Washington special reaction in Bonn to the test ban treaty is a re minder on two Points that Are easily forgotten first the thorny question of the Succes Sion to or. Adenauer is not thoroughly settled. Second president Kennedy did not reach a firm understanding with Bonn on German Ameri can policy because when he was in Germany recently the Bonn government was deeply divided _ when the first news came from Moscow that an agree ment would be reached the i West German foreign minis i Ter or. Gerhard Shroeder i welcomed it cordially and an j bounced so it was thought Bonn s prompt adherence to the treaty. In doing this or. I Shroeder was speaking for the Post Adenauer German read ers but when Gen. De Gaulle i decided that France would abstain or. Adenauer and the i old guard among the Christian democrats took Steps to Over Rule the foreign minister. I since or. Adenauer is still the i Chancellor he is Able to re i direct West German policy i away from the Atlantic part i Pership and along a line i which while not identical with i Gen. De Gaulle a is parallel to it. Or. Adenauer will use what political influence he can exercise in the United states i to exact a political Price be fore the treaty is ratified. Maximum gain the maximum gain would be to kill the treaty by Induc ing the Senate to attach a destructive rider. To it. The minimum gain would be to demonstrate that whether or not he retires in he is still the master of German foreign policy. We have to remember that or. Adenauer s manoeuvre is concerned with internal and external West German poli tics and has nothing to do Konrad Adenauer with nuclear tests. Whether the Federal Republic does or does not sign the test ban treaty the fact is that the Federal Republic has already signed a test ban treaty a solemn treaty not to do any thing whatever about nuclear weapons. If Bonn now decides to abstain from signing the treaty it. Will make no Dif Ference to the nuclear Situa Tion. In this West Germany Dif fers from the two other Prin Cipal abstainers France and red China for them All test ing will remain lawful because they will not Piave signed the treaty. Nit pickers the Case of East Germany is theoretically though not practically an interesting and even an amusing one. If East Germany were not allowed to sign this unrecognized piece of territory would be free in deed would have a licence to test if West Germany refuses to sign it will still be forbid Den to test. This is i hate to say the kind of anomaly which is of interest Only to the professional nit pickers. Only on the surface is or. Adenauer s manoeuvre concerned with the nit picking dil Emma if East. Germany adheres to a treaty is the partition of Germany recognized in International life the East German govern ment has adhered so i have been told to about 11 International conventions and that fact has not altered the situation. East Germany is not recognized by the three Prin Cipal Allied Powers France Britain and the United states which have authority in re Gard to the solution of the German question. The presi Dent of the United states has moreover declared publicly that East Germany s adherence to this treaty will not bring United states recognition and if the president says it will not bring recognition it will not bring recognition. Gaullist drive for this reason we must not treat the nit picking As the real thing. The real thing is the gaullist drive. In this drive or. Adenauer is collaborating while his successors Are not the object of the drive is to take into French and German hands the Politi Cal leadership of Europe and to do this by diminishing the influence of the United states. That is the reason Why the West German foreign minister has been rebuffed and Why the next Chancellor. Or. Or hard has so Long been ignored. The object of the manoeuvre is to see How Many stumbling blocks can be put in president Kennedy s path Dur ing the Long process of ratification. It remains to be seen whether any substantial num Ber of senators will lend them selves to a manoeuvre which is not concerned with the vital interests of the United states but Only with Continental european politics. Copyright 1963 the Washington Post co to Paris or Europe with air France new 21-Day excursion fares effective oat. 1st through april 30th travel when you the Day of your Choice special 21-Day also available. For Mart details agent or air France Toronto 11 Adelaide 40101. 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