LATE EARL HAIG

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22205, 4 September 1935, Page 11

LATE EARL HAIG

BOOK BY WIDOW PUBLICATION DELAYED FELLOW TRUSTEES - ACTION By Telegraph—Press Aiisociation—Copyright (Received (September 3, 5.25 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. '2 Lady Haig's biography of her.lato husband, Earl Haig, entitled " This Man ]*. Knew," due for publication on September 6, and written to counteract Mr. Lloyd George's "War Memoirs," has been temporarily withdrawn. This is a sequel to Lord Carmont granting an interim interdict in the Edinburgh Court on the petition of Major-Generals Fisher and Depreie, forming a majority of Lord Haig's trustees. The ground of the application to the Court was that the book infringed the , copyright of the biography which the trustees had arranged with Mr. Dul£ Cooper to prepare, after placing Lord Haig's diariesi at his disposal. Lord Carmont said that Lord Haig was an inveterate diarist. His daily record during the war aggregated 32 volumes containing more than 750,000 words. Petitioners alleged that Lady Haig's book, especially u chapter dealing with the ws.r, was a verbatim copy or a phrase of many passages in the diarieiu Lord Carmont did not agree with the petitioners that Lady Haig, who iis third trustee, committed a breach, of duty as custodian of the diaries and letters she had received, but petitioned could hardly he expected to be content with " a large bowl of skimmed milk."' It was; not surprising; that they believed the trust estate would suffer through the publication of tho widow's book. The case will be heard at the Ediifc« burgh Sessions. Extracts from Mr. Duff Cooper'u official biography, " Haig," are being published daily in the New Zeaiasd the "author quoting largely from Earl Haig's war diaries. To-day's instalment isi published on page 20.