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...Many of the nations on the tribunal had had such doubts. Britain, Australia and New Zealand (related Keenan) had at first wanted to conduct the trial on the narrow grounds that Japan had violated the rules of civilized warfare, while the U.S. and Canada clung to the Nürnberg view that aggressive war was itself a crime. Pragmatic ex-Gangbuster Keenan somewhat naively quoted Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged, 1943, in an effort to establish a legal definition of aggressive...
...advances which have come from your country . . . . But no one in the world respects anything of your country, in the full and real sense of the word like one does an Einstein, British Justice, Sweden, Toscanini, Switzerland, the dignity and patriotism of the Germans hung in Nuörnberg in a disgraceful parody of justice, a Nobel prize winner, etc., etc. The only respect a citizen of the U.S.A. may claim from the world would be the respect of fear, because of his country's might...
This week the conscience of U.S. science, in the person of a chunky Chicago physiologist named Andrew Conway Ivy, took off for Nu¨rnberg. He is to represent U.S. scientists at the trial of 23 Nazi doctors for high crimes against Science-and against Humanity...
Jones gets uneasy when Editor Guy Schofield suggests that he drop his column for a while and turn to something else. He did agree to cover part of the Nürnberg trials, but floundered badly among the super criminals, and was as happy as his readers when he got back to his raffish, minor-rogues' gallery...
...three that were acquitted all face trial in a few weeks by German Spruchkammern (lower courts). Franz von Papen and Hans Fritsche are in Nürnberg. Ailing Hjalmar Schacht is in a Stuttgart hospital, to which he was taken last fortnight, handcuffed, and screaming for an immediate trial. Life imprisonment was apparently agreeing with convicted Rudolf Hess. From Nürnberg last week, came news that his shattered nerves were returning to normal, his stomach aches disappearing...