Edward Carson case was regarded at the time as an important political case as Carson and the Unionists maintained that it showed the fundamental immorality of free trade. George Cadbury recovered the derisory sum of one farthing in damages in a case described as one of Carson's triumphs. Carson was also the victorious counsel in the 1910 Archer-Shee Case, exonerating a Royal Naval College, Osborne cadet of the charge of theft. The cadet was from a quite prominent Roman Catholic banking family, and educated at Stonyhurst. On this case, Terence Rattigan based his play "The Winslow Boy". The fictional barrister, Morton, is
Hands Across the Sea (play) "The Times" said of the play: "As a piece of production it is, technically, of the utmost brilliance; as an entertainment, in its own kind frothily faultless. Coward's fellow-dramatist Terence Rattigan considered it "the best short comedy ever written." Hands Across the Sea (play) Hands Across the Sea is a short comic play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up "", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, "A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain