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...these defendants a poisoned chalice," said U.S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson in 1945 at the start of the first Nürnberg war crimes trials, "is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspiration to do justice...
Back in his old job on the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, ex-Prosecutor Jackson could scarcely fail to see that such a trial would not "commend itself to posterity." Last week, in response to an appeal by some of the convicted Japanese, Jackson broke a 4-10-4 deadlock among his fellow justices and voted that the Supreme Court of the U.S. hear argument on whether to review the legality of the Tokyo tribunal. Jackson's opinion argued on both sides of the 440-4 deadlock.'Tor this court now to call up these cases for judicial...
...questioned. Some hard-to-please movie critics have suggested that the picture might be harmful to the young and to the emotionally unstable, and that it should therefore be shown only to limited audiences. Psychiatrists, who have deplored most Hollywood explorations (and vulgarizations) of their specialty, disagree; they commend The Snake Pit in terms which studio pressagents could not improve on. It has even been seriously suggested that the picture be shown to borderline cases and patients. Said one Manhattan psychiatrist: "It would give them a feeling of hope for their own recovery...
...psychiatrist says conscience is often a doubtful asset, the clergyman ought to know what is meant and commend it, even though he may suggest sharpening up conscience so as not to imply non-concern for ethics. If a clergyman says men must recognize their sinfulness before salvation is possible, the psychiatrist ought to know what this means, even though cautioning against identification of the fact of sin with a sense of guilt...
...cannot commend to your generation the philosophy of my own. What I propose in its stead I can compress in this phrase: 'Be an active, living part of your times...