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...Post Facto. In San Francisco, Judge Harry Neubarth heard the pleas of three shoplifters, let them go, later found they had walked out of the courtroom with the two pairs of nylons he had bought for his wife...
...They violate that fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute. The hanging of eleven men convicted at Nürnberg will be a blot on the American record that we shall long regret...
...most recent book, "The Nuremberg Trial and Aggressive War," he took issue with those who claimed that the trial was based on ex post facto laws and was not legitimate. Professor Glueck argued that international law is to be compared to common law, which exists without written statue, and that, therefore, there is ample precedent on which to base the indictment of the German war leaders...
...legitimized the de facto Soviet sovereignty over the Kushk district, a remote corner of the world where Afghanistan, Iran and the U.S.S.R. meet among the high pastures, vast pistachio groves and wild tribesmen who live around the ancient Oxus River.* The treaty just negotiated between Moscow and Kabul scraps two 1921 clauses which granted the people of Kushk the right to choose their own masters by plebiscite, and stipulated Russian financial and material aid to Afghanistan...
...Atomic Age, how can an Allied Military Government deal with such a feudal society? For the loss of Bikini, compensation should be paid. But to whom? Will it be democratic to pay Juda rather than his people? If Juda gets the bounty, will that not mean de facto recognition of his regime? Is this a UNO problem...