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...McCloskey Criticizes Decision...
...McCloskey maintains, "a question of Eichmann's rights but of the law's rights." He decries the posing of the issue in terms of a choice between letting Eichmann go free and punishing him. "It is certainly not Eichmann who should be preserved, but the integrity of the law, and of the principles underlying...
...pointed out that American law does not prohibit a trial when the accused has been forcibly extradited. McCloskey raised his eyebrows in a deprecating gesture: "A good case, with foundations in American law, could be made to contradict that decision...
...McCloskey's statement, like those of many Faculty members, revealed a tension between regard for legality and a desire to see Adolf Eichmann receive retribution. Almost no arguments can be heard, on either side, that do not contain some ambivalence along these lines...
Baer's stand is representative of one group of Faculty members who declined to be quoted. Their argument takes into account the identical objections posed by Handlin, Hughes, and McCloskey, but all, with varying degrees of rationality, brush them aside. Some couch their feelings in legal terms. Some do not bother.15H. STUART HUGHES...