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...sign a separate peace with Germany. This is not rumor or speculation; it is fact set down in black & white detail in documents captured in Germany and now in the hands of the U.S. State Department. The story these documents tell was mentioned (and suppressed) at Nürnberg. It was mentioned again (but not told) in the House of Commons. It is not a pretty story, but it is a very important piece of history. Here...
...What has been done at Nürnberg . . . is a new judicial process but it is not ex post facto law. It is the enforcement of a moral judgment which dates back a generation. It is a growth in the application of law that any student of our common law should recognize as natural and proper, for it is just in this manner that the common law grew up. All case law grows by new decisions, and where those decisions match the conscience of the community, they are law as truly as the law of murder...
...phrase in Stimson's argument seemed to be "the conscience of the community." Did this conscience, in fact, match Nürnberg's law? The existence of treaties did not prove that the answer was yes. Convincing proof would come only if nations behaved consistently in accordance with the principles of conscience which Nürnberg assumed...
...Delegate Archibald MacLeish broke the silence by telling the press that the U.S. had voted for Huxley. (Earlier the Americans had agitated for Francis Biddle, ex-Attorney General of the U.S. and one of the Nürnberg judges.) When the new director-general followed up MacLeish by revealing a promise to resign after two years of his six-year term, observers scented a compromise...
...There was none of Nürnberg's cold impersonality about the dingy Roman courtroom where two German generals stood trial last week before a British war crimes tribunal. "The blood of my husband claims justice!" screamed a woman as the chief witness for the defense took the stand. "Butchers, murderers!" spat 25 others standing with her, each wearing a silver badge marked "320." That stood for the number of Italian civilians the German Command had ordered killed in the Ardeatine Caves in reprisal for 32 Nazis bombed in Rome in March...