Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that the victors have very little written law to work with, brusquely proposed to remedy that deficiency by making law to suit the case. Said he: ". . . International law as taught in the 19th and the early . . . 20th Century generally declared that war-making was not illegal and no crime at law. ... Unless we are prepared to abandon every principle of growth for international law, we cannot deny that our own day has its right to institute customs and to conclude agreements that will themselves become sources of a newer and strengthened international...
...make the punishment fit the crime helps neither the criminal nor society. After 20 years of studying criminals in & out of jail, this is the conclusion reached by Harvard's famed criminologists, Sheldon and Eleanor T. Glueck. In After-Conduct of Discharged Offenders (Macmillan-$2.50), they go beyond their previous factual reports (TIME, May 6, 1940 et ante) to propose radical reform in legal punishments, judicial sentencing and the work of parole boards...
Burke did not mean that a whole people cannot be morally guilty of crime. . . . What he was driving at was that an indictment can only be charged against a definite person or persons, and is a legal device operating under technical legal restrictions, while a people is ... composed of an unspecific number of indefinite persons, whom it is thus impossible legally to indict...
...vine-covered county hall at ancient Ahrweiler, a U.S. military trial commission last week heard the story of a crime and gave the Germans a sample of U.S. justice...
...continued censorship on "matters of high military importance" was not as forbidding as it sounded. Only major item now banned under this clause: interviews with Nazi bigwigs, while evidence is being gathered for their trials. Otherwise, almost anything goes. SHAEF-accredited correspondents will even be admitted to the war crime trials. Skeptical newsmen, hardened by SHAEF's creaky, on-again-off-again press machinery, decided to keep their fingers crossed for a while...