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Hitler set up the Court of Honor to indict the Wehrmacht conspirators, used his People's Court to degrade the indicted by a civilian trial. With a mocking bow to the Army, Hitler named Rundstedt to a seat on the Court of Honor. The plebeian was still using the patrician...
Both Dewey and Warren have been charged with being somewhat insensitive to the means which they have employed in pursuit of their righteous ends. In 1930, when Warren set out to indict some Oakland city officials for graft, he well knew that if the indictment did not come off, he would be charged with engineering a whitewash. Accordingly, he released daily transcripts of the grand jury testimony to the press - a clear law violation - to show that he was doing his utmost. Happily for him, the indictment and convictions followed...
...like the way pictures were being retouched. He had the white paint taken off, then showed the artists how he wanted the job done. At the copy desk he looked at a few heads, then gave his first flat order: no more heads starting with verbs, like INDICT 16 MILLS ON FLOUR PRICES...
...enough to indict the murderer. It is time for America and the United Nations to act. Every hour sees the murder of more thousands. . . . All who will be allowed to perish will be an eternal badge of shame on the soul of mankind...
Federal grand juries seldom indict for lynching anywhere, but a jury made legal race history last week in Jackson, Miss. by doing just that: indicting Deputy Sheriff Luther Holder of Jones County-as well as four leaders of a lynch mob-because he did not protest or protect the jail or cell of one Howard Wash and so failed to keep alive his prisoner...