Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House offices and cloakroom last week, members bandied a forgotten name. This scissorbill from Missouri, they said, was beginning to sound like Samuel Jackson Randall. Handsome Sam Randall was chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Grant Administration-and he was something to summon up. His committee grabbed so much power that it controlled legislation just by loosening and tightening the Government purse strings...
...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...
...aggressive war. The corruption of pre-Nazi Germany, the murder of 4,500,000 Jews, the successive invasions, the plunder of Europe and the enslavement of Europeans-all were held to be international crimes because all were part of the master plan of aggressive war. Upon that contention, Justice Jackson repeatedly said, the prosecution's case stood or fell...
...German people were not on trial; neither was Germany as a nation (said Jackson: ". . . we have no purpose to incriminate the whole German people"). The case against the 20 men in the dock rested on the prosecution's theory of "individual responsibility" ("Who was responsible for these crimes if they were not?"). This theory in turn rested on the premise that Adolf Hitler, such top Nazis as the dead Heinrich Himmler, the 20 in the dock and some 2,000,000 members of the Nazi Party's "Leadership Corps" (the Gestapo, SA, SS, etc.) had imposed Naziism...
...Justice Jackson's remarkable definition of the military defendants' status was enough to make all professional soldiers lie awake nights: "We recognize that to plan warfare is the business of professional soldiers in every country. But it is one thing to plan strategic moves in the event war comes, and it is another thing to plot and intrigue to bring on that war. . . . Military men are not before you because they served their country. They are here because they mastered it, along with these others, and drove it to war. They are not here because they lost...