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...Marsden Hartley's garish Three Friends, which showed Christ flanked by a hairy prize fighter and a clown. (Hartley, in a poem he wrote about it, says that the athlete and the clown had suffered almost as much as Christ...
That Justice Robert Jackson had made a great speech when he opened the Nürnberg trial, the world already knew. Just how great it was the world saw more clearly last week when Sir Hartley William Shawcross, Britain's Attorney General, opened the case for the British prosecution. Sir Hartley is one of Britain's most brilliant jurists. His day-long speech was an impressive, tightly logical, exhaustive dissertation. Yet rarely did it match Jackson's bold attempt to find law in ultimate source-the principles of men- rather than in statute, treaty, precedent...
...largely a matter of emphasis. Both lawyers pointed to the sheaf of treaties which nations had signed and sealed through the years, in the anxious hope of banning war. But Sir Hartley interpreted the treaties as laws that applied to individuals, even though everyone knew that they were not meant to be so applied...
...Britain-Judge, Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence; Prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Hartley William Shawcross...
...Labor Government's new, youngish Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, opened for the prosecution. In a grave, melodious voice Sir Hartley said: "Members of the jury, today, exactly six years after he entered into the employment of the German broadcasting corporation, William Joyce comes before you on what is the gravest crime...