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Chewing a fat, four-inch stogie, Finland's most popular "war criminal" stepped out the gate of Helsinki's Sornas Prison last week into the welcoming arms of his wife, eight children and eleven grandchildren. White-haired, 68-year-old Vaino Tanner, condemned by a Communist-run tribunal...
Tons of Paper. The trial of Tojo and 27 other top war criminals began in Tokyo 2½ years ago in the black painted granite building which had been the Japanese War Ministry, on a hill behind the Emperor's palace. Eleven nations were represented on the Allied tribunal...
Droning on steadily for seven days, Australia's ruddy, silver-haired Sir William Webb, the tribunal's chairman, read the verdict. One by one, the prisoners were called in for sentencing. For six others besides Tojo, it was death; for 16 more, life imprisonment.
Merely a Label? India's representative on the tribunal, Judge Radhabinode Pal, filed a minority opinion violently dissenting from the majority verdict. Repeating the criticisms made by the critics of Nurnberg, Judge Pal said that there was no satisfactory definition of "aggressive war" in international law, that "aggressors" was...
After six hours, the head of the five-judge military tribunal gravely pronounced the stiffest sentence he could give under Italian law:* life imprisonment, including four years' solitary confinement, for "repeated and premeditated murder."