Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson had declared at the beginning of the trials: "International law ... if it is to advance at all, advances at the expense of those who wrongly guessed the law and learned too late their error. I am not disturbed at the lack of judicial precedent for the inquiry...
Postscript. This fanciful turnabout was answered last week by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in an address before the University of Buffalo. Jackson declared that the trial's fundamental justification lay in its attempt to outlaw aggressive war and to destroy "the old theory that international law bears on states and not on statesmen [shielded by] 'sovereignty.' . . ." He reasserted his belief that this interpretation was actually implicit in existing international law, which the Allies had merely strengthened. Said he: "At all events, whether they be regarded as an innovation or a codification, those principles are law today...
Schlesinger is most noted for his book, "The Age of Jackson," in addition to having published his sumpia thesis as an undergraduate. Dennett is from the World Peace Foundation and Eliot has had experience in Congress. Allen and Mrs. Sharp are trying to oust Edith Nourse Rogers and Joseph Martin, respectively...
This Levi Jackson is really terrific...
...Author Jackson has a plausible clinical grasp of the excruciating predicament of these people, and he prepares his revelation with conscientious care. But the book is not remotely comparable to Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, a calm, classic, immensely artful treatment of a similar theme...