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...Agreed with Senator Robert Taft that the Nűrnberg trial would be "long remembered." Taft said it would be remembered "with regret" (TIME, Oct. 14). Mr. Truman hailed it as the "blazing of a new trail in international justice...
Conspicuous Disparity. Thoughtful people throughout the Western World realized that not merely eleven wretched lives were at stake, but Western democracy's moral position in the inevitable trials of history. Their doubts about Nűrnberg's justice were perhaps best summed up by two British publications. Said London's Economist...
...result of the Nűrnberg trial has been a well-deserved fate for a group of evil men . . . yet the force of the condemnation is not unaffected by the fact that the nations sitting in judgment have so clearly proclaimed themselves exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this...
...other school of opinion held that the judges had been too stern. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft denounced the hangings as violating "fundamental principles of American law." Some cynics still believed that Nürnberg had merely meted out the traditional victor's law over the vanquished. When a newsman asked General Eisenhower whether he believed he would have been hanged by the Germans, had the war gone the other way, Eisenhower answered smilingly: "Such thoughts you have!" A literary wag last week put such thoughts into a political fantasy. Excerpts...
...mass persecution of minorities, bloody suppression of all opposition] of maintaining itself. Opposition ... to existing regimes today will earn the same fate in much of eastern Europe as it did in Germany. . . . There is great need that the statesmen pick up where the lawyers leave off at Nürnberg...