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...nobly worded, nobly intentioned statement opening the Nürnberg trials, U.S. Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson presented a warning and a goal: "We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice 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...
Herr Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 75, head of Germany's notorious munitions dynasty, was too old and too sick to go on trial with the other indicted war criminals at Nürnberg. But Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson wanted a live Krupp in the dock. He had an idea: why not substitute 38-year-old Alfried Krupp for his ailing father? After all, all the Krupps were in the same boat. The Russians and French agreed; Jackson asked for a delay to write the new name into the old indictment. The International War Crimes Tribunal...
...Judge, ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle; Prosecutor, Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson...
...Supreme Court Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor of war crimes, last week's declaration was a personal victory. He had argued long & loud that a war of aggression must, per se, be considered a crime...
...Never. Despite all that had been done, Russia, Britain, France and the U.S. had yet to agree on a common procedure. This week a U.S. source in London said that Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson had toughened up, warned the others that the U.S. would start the trials alone unless agreement came soon. Major point of disagreement: Jackson's insistence that wars of aggression be recognized, per se, as international crimes...