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...Washington a man under no diplomatic restrictions gave a more candid answer. The man was Dr. Edmund Walsh, founder of Georgetown University's famed School of Foreign Service, consultant to the U.S. Army on geopolitics, lecturer at the General Staff School, consultant at the Nürnberg trials, specialist in Russian history. Said Jesuit Father Walsh...
Died. Dr. Auguste Champetier de Ribes, 64, veteran French politician, president of the Council of the Republic (upper house of parliament in the Fourth Republic), head of France's prosecuting staff at the Nürnberg trials; of cancer; in Paris...
...rnberg International Military Tribunal acquitted three top Nazis-Radio Spokesman Hans Fritzsche, Banker Hjalmar Schacht, Diplomat Franz von Papen-of war crimes. In Nürnberg last week, the lantern-jawed Fritzsche found his fellow Germans less forgiving. A denazification court sentenced Fritzsche to nine years at hard labor for "political crimes against the German people," stripped him of civil rights and property (including the privilege of ever, again owning an automobile...
...Munich, Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler's official photographer, admitted that he had realized a fortune of $800,000 from his Reich picture books, had even sold 10,000 photos of Hitler to the French during the occupation. Hoffman, who had aided the Allied prosecution at Nürnberg, got a ten-year sentence from his fellow Germans...
...rnberg in the world's unwritten common law: "If there is no law now under which to try these people, it is about time the human race made some" (TIME, Oct. 21). Perhaps the most striking of several legal opinions, diligently gathered by Keenan, was one by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1934): "International law . . . has at times, like the common law within states, a twilight existence during which it is hardly distinguishable from morality or justice till at length the imprimatur of a court attests its jural quality. The gradual consolidation of opinions and habits has been...